And the winners of this year's Munchies 2017 are ...

Welcome to Part I of The Munchies 2017, in which The Menu salutes some of the heroes and achievements of the culinary calendar. (Next week, Part II.)

Food Emporium of the Year

Since early childhood, The Roughty Fruit King had always been a part of The Menu’s pyscho-geographical landscape. Then, as the English Market found itself reinvigorated by a new, innovative, young band of traders in the 90s, eventually becoming today’s vibrant culinary locus of food in Cork city, the RFK stayed the same, forever trapped in amber. That began to change when Margo Ann Murphy and brother Garrett took over the reins from their father, Michael, changing the focus of the stall, which has now grown to become one giant hamper packed to the brim with some of the finest Irish specialty foods, including a humongous and nigh unsurpassable range of jams and preserves, splendid little stocking fillers.