Festival reels in some big foodies

An award-winning food blogger and writer will return from her adopted home in London to her native Dungarvan next month to help showcase the best of local food and pass on some of her expertise.

Next month’s Waterford Festival of Food will be the fifth year of the event, which sees thousands of food lovers descending on the coastal town of Dungarvan for four days of eating, cooking and activity.

Among those taking part will be Niamh Shields, originally from Dungarvan but who, since her move to London, has published best-selling cookery book Comfort and Spice; was highly commended in The Observer’s Food Monthly awards and named as one of the top 10 food bloggers in the world by The Times for her eatlikeagirl.com blog.