The Menu: Cork is the country's breadbasket and that's official

— and dine at home kits from Jacques Restaurant and Commodore Hotel are worth sampling

English Market-based butcher Tom Durcan, one of this year's recipients of the prestigious Irish Food Writers' Guild Awards. Photographer Paul Sherwood

Cork: the country's breadbasket

It is probably not the greatest pandemic-related hardship by more than a country mile, but The Menu is genuinely disappointed to once more miss his annual trip to the Big Smoke for the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards, when he gathers each year with his fellow food scribes to pass a wonderful day of wining and dining to celebrate an always splendid collection of Irish food producers and personalities.