If there is a case to be made for GIY being one of Ireland’s most progressive food activist organisations, then The Menu is always happy to testify accordingly, especially taken as he is with this latest initiative, a social eating programme for primary schools, called Eat Together, that begins to address the crucial issue of food education in primary schools.

There is a book to be written on the medical profession and its influence on the wine industry.

Wine gets a lot of press in the run-up to the big Christmas feast, but who says you have to stick with those foreign imports?