The Menu: Dublin's Big Grill Festival is set to be a delectable BBQ firestarter

Plus: a bite out of Donadea Farm's premium Wagyu beef-burgers

Big Grill BBQ & Food Festival (August 14-17) in Dublin’s Herbert Park

Fifteen years ago, I interviewed a barbecue pitmaster from Tennessee who’d wound up living just outside Clonakilty. My then-experience of live fire cooking was minimal, potentially lethal. 

So, it was fascinating to meet someone of a similar vintage, with plenty of similarities in our comparatively comfortable upbringings as white, ‘first world’ westerners, albeit separated by Atlantic Ocean and occasional continent.