The menu: Food news with Joe McNamee

Do, please, come in and sit down, 2018! Extend your palm thusly, that Mystic Menu might divine your path over the coming 12 months. As always, this Al-Menu-nac for the year ahead begins with a brief look at predictions delivered in January last year, the hits and the misses.

Again, it looks as if The Menu remains ahead of the curve for his predicted embrace of goat meat by the Irish dining population has yet to take place on any large and meaningful level but he remains certain this is a meat that will increasingly gain prominence on the Irish dining table, alongside a whole host of other carnivorous options.

It would certainly be more sustainable than the State’s current over-enabling of the cattle and dairy sector, continuing to drive livestock numbers higher and higher, making it harder and harder to achieve our targets when it comes to reducing carbon emissions, no matter that the ‘greenwashing’ of Origin Green would have you believe otherwise.