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Four celebrity chefs, 12 questions. Ahead of the Irish Examiner Food Festival next week, Darina Allen, Andrew Rudd, Rachel Allen and Paolo Tullio reveal their dream dinner party guests, memorable meals — and their favourite summer recipes.

Three tapas and a tipple — count me in

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.

SUSTAINABILITY was on the menu for revellers sampling the culinary delights at the Mad Hatter’s Taste of Kinsale at the weekend as top local chefs vied with each other for a top award.

SKIBBEREEN is gearing up for the 10,000 people expected to attend its colourful annual food festival, which will feature everything from a “Celtic Cook-off” to seaweed cookery demonstrations, farmers’ markets, craft fairs and tastings.

GROWING your own and local food are the topics of an event in Inchigeelagh, Co Cork, next Sunday at Creedon’s Hotel.

BRITISH film director David Puttnam will open one of the country’s best known food festivals on Saturday by addressing an international food conference.

Giana Ferguson shared her Dad’s recipe for his favourite paella.

An important seminar for beekeepers will be held from 2pm at the Parkway Hotel, Dunmanway, tomorrow. The seminar will be opened by Trevor Sargent, Minister for Food and Horticulture, and comes in response to the loss of the many hundreds of hives last year in this area.

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

A gorgeous little salad which totally depends on good ingredients.

A gorgeous little salad which totally depends on good ingredients.

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

SLOW FOOD West Cork and the Schull ICA recently teamed up to host an event where guild members and their friends and local farming families could meet the foodmakers who sell at the local farmers’ markets.

GOD bless the cheesemakers.