Culinary athletes put skills to test

So-called culinary athletes are set to grab the limelight at one of the country’s leading food events in October.

The inaugural Dingle Culinary Pentathlon, which will take place on the first day of the festival in the west Kerry town, will see students from professional culinary schools throughout the country test their athletic and cookery skills.

The students will have to race through the town, on foot and by bike, and pick up a blind basket of ingredients en route. They will then create a two-course lunch in a heated cook-off.