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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.

Tuesday, May 8, 8.30pm, Sugar Club, 8 Lower Leeson St, Dublin 2; bookings [e-mail]

* Good Food Ireland Guide Book and map now available. See www.goodfoodireland.ie; tel [phone]; email [e-mail].

* Bewley’s launches exclusive Cup of Excellence coffees: Sourced and roasted in Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador and Nicaragua. Each coffee is featured at Bewley’s Grafton St, Dublin.

* Pig in a Day Course at Ballymaloe Cookery School on Saturday, May 12, 9.30am-5.00pm. Learn how to do your own home curing, use everything from nose to tail, homemade sausages, salami, chorizo, dry and wet cured bacon, ham and brawn. Tel [phone]; [e-mail]