Food fashionistas go green with local produce

FOOD fashionistas are going green – eating locally grown food and reducing their carbon footprint, Ireland’s leading food critic has claimed.

“It is definitely not fashionable to fly in food from far-flung places, any more,” said John McKenna, who launched 2010 Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants Guide yesterday.

When the guide was launched 21 years ago anything that came from abroad, particularly France, was perceived as being good, he said. “Nowadays keeping your food miles short and finding what’s on your doorstep is how the best places are really separating themselves from the rest. We now have confidence in our own produce – that’s the biggest change. We used to think that if it was foreign, it was better. But, actually, we can do anything in food as well as the best, no matter where they are coming from,” he said.