Celtic cook-off in West Cork

The West is very much awake for The Menu as he hightails it off down to Heir Island, West Cork, for Firehouse Bread’s splendid wood-fired oven bread-making course.

Before the begrudgers let rip with a broadside, implying The Menu’s life is one long holiday, The Menu would like to point out his current sojourn in West Cork is strictly research — for his return in September to one of the nation’s longest running food festivals, A Taste of West Cork, Sept 10-16.