Metalman Heat Sink Smoked Chilli Porter , 5.0% ABV; 330ml — €2.80

A wild salmon caught in Cork Harbour last week ended up netting a tasty chunk of cash for charity.

Husband and wife Peter and Birgitta Curtin of Burren Smokehouse, who set up their artisan smokehouse business in 1989, last year marked 25 years of international export growth.

The annual Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards, in Dublin’s Michelin-starred L’Ecrivain, is invariably one of the finer beanos in the culinary calendar, with Chef Derry Clarke always putting on an exceedingly fine nosebag, each course based on the produce of a particular award winner.

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Are retail moods on the rise? Who was celebrating after the foodies towns awards last week? Just some of the questions answered in this week’s show. We also meet the Cork student who won Engineer Ireland’s Student Award and sits down with Brigitta Curtain from Burren Smokehouse. Finally we reveal how the digital market is giving a platform to Irish retailers and helping them win a slice of the €8.5m daily online spend in Ireland.

A Kinsale-based company has proved pick of the bunch at this year’s Great Taste Awards.

Celebrity chef Darina Allen and the international Slow Food organisation have clashed with Bord Iascaigh Mhara over its proposed 500-hectare organic salmon farm off the Aran Islands.

A recent survey has revealed a startling fact that 40% of digital natives do not know that milk comes from a dairy cow.

Family-run Wild Irish Sea Veg is tapping into consumers’ growing taste for seaweed and after bagging a deal with a NY deli and aiming to grow sales to Britain and beyond, there’s no limit to the company’s ambitions, writes Trish Dromey

ORGANIC smoked salmon producer The Burren Smokehouse has signed a valuable sales agreement with the prestigious gourmet food retailer Fortnum and Mason (F&M).