Any epicurean entrepreneurs on the verge of bringing another fine product to the Irish food marketplace would do well to trot along to a very promising Outstanding By Design seminar (May 10), at Highbank Organic Orchard Farm, Cuffesgrange, Kilkenny.

TWENTY-FIVE-year-old food writer and television presenter Donal Skehan has fast become a household name in Ireland.

I was a pretty laid back child. The ambition only came later, when I left school and realised there was a big bad world out there.