Meet the Cork food producers who make your Christmas dinner extra special

Every Christmas in Cork is a culinary celebration of the year-round work of superb local producers and growers, most of them, small family-run operations.
Having cooked most of the Christmas dinners I’ve eaten over the last 30-plus years, I know for certain the quality of the meal depends mostly on the quality of the primary product used in the preparation.
Blessed as I am to live in the county of Cork which is arguably the food basket of Ireland and one of the finest food-producing regions anywhere in the world, every Christmas is a culinary celebration of the year-round work of superb local producers and growers, most of them, small family-run operations.