Feast your eyes on this: This summer's best food festivals

Joe McNamee travels the country for his wrap of some of the best food festivals coming our way this summer.

Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of food festivals across the country, to such an extent, I felt this article needed a slick little intro to properly convey the sense of this deluge, perhaps something tongue-in-cheek to tease out the notion that some may even be putting the cart before the horse, or the ‘festival’ before the ‘food’, in their anxiety to jump on the bandwagon. Aha, I thought, I’ll conjure up a vision of some fella opening a bag of Tayto and another fella makes it the basis of a food festival. Then a press release lands in my in-box announcing Ireland’s very first Crisp Festival.