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.

The Menu relishes any opportunity to spice up his dining with a bit of pizzazz.

Top names from the food, restaurant, and tourism sectors have sharply criticised the Environmental Protection Agency for potentially destroying Ireland’s “clean, green” agricultural image by allowing GM potatoes to be grown in Ireland.

This weekend I’m heading to Sandbrook in Co Carlow to celebrate International Slow Food Grandmother’s Day.

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KEY figures in West Cork’s food industry are working with University College Cork (UCC) to develop Ireland’s first masters in organic horticulture on a renowned estate.

A SERIES of free events will take place during the upcoming Waterford Harvest Festival.

A BAN on the sale of raw milk for human consumption is justified, says Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney.

THE famous blaa is on the menu during a 10-day festival celebrating the best of local produce from the south-east.

NOW that I am a grandmother with seven precious grandchildren, I am more aware of the importance of passing on some life skills to the next generation. They all live within 15 minutes of us so we are fortunate to see them almost every day.

FOR YEARS the “inner hippy” in me has longed to go to a rock festival but I’ve always chickened out at the last minute for a variety of reasons — those huge crowds seemed scary and would I not look and feel completely ridiculous in the midst of all those be-bopping young people.

'Grandmothers' Day' is being marked today for the first time ever.

THE Irish palate and food industry have been revolutionised in recent years, President Mary McAleese told the Terre Madre gastronomic festival in Waterford.

A NEW direction for sustainable food production was sought at the Terre Madre festival in Waterford yesterday.

IRELAND’S largest Slow Food festival got under way last night and is set to welcome celebrity chefs, politicians, food experts and thousands of visitors to the south-east in the coming days.

FUNDING for five regional artisan food study tours, which will be held as part of the Terra Madre (Mother Earth) food festival in Waterford next month, was announced yesterday by Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

TOP chef Darina Allen has hit out at over-regulation of the food industry, describing health inspectors as “bacteria police”.

WATERFORD CITY and the south-east region will be the venue in September for a leading food festival being held for the first time in Ireland.

CORK has been declared a genetically modified (GM) food and crop free zone.

Slow Food Ireland presents two films under the title The Future of Irish Food: Fowl, by Andrew Legge, and The Power of Community, How Cuba survived Peak Oil, — with guest speakers.

I READ with interest Brian O’Mahony’s article headlined ‘We must question our rushed eating habits’ (Irish Examiner, December 6).

ANOTHER convivial Slow food event - I’ve just had the best fun wending my way up to the top of Lough Ine Hill - my daughter and my well-toned friend from boarding school powered their way ahead, I adopted a more leisurely pace.

A CELEBRATION of the rural way of life and field sports was how organisers described a weekend countryside festival at Clonmel Racecourse in Co Tipperary.

WE had a tasting of the new season’s honey at the East Cork Slow Food Convivium recently.

EAST CORK Slow Food Convivium was established in August 2002 and its latest event was a Slow Food dinner at Café Paradiso in Cork on August 21.