Weekend food with Darina Allen: Veronica Steele and Milleens cheese

I want to write a little tribute to Veronica Steele, an extraordinary woman who unwittingly started the artisan food movement in Ireland. 

I can’t begin to improve on this wonderfully description of how it all began in Veronica’s own words on the Milleens website:

“The old shop in Castletownbere with its saucepans and shovels ... and smoked hams hanging from hooks in the ceiling and huge truckles of cheddar on the wooden counter with their mouldy bandages the crumbs of the cheese strewn around, scrumptious, tempting, melt-in-the-mouth crumbs which you could nibble at as you queued to be served, with your message list.