Learn about the people behind your favourite products with TheTaste’s producer spotlights. Go behind the scenes with hardworking people across Ireland, who spend their days producing unique and high quality produce.
Peter McCloskey is the Managing Director of Collar of Gold Limited, the company that produces the pure Irish rapeseed oil that has been taking the food industry (and indeed, many home kitchens) by storm....
“I grew up on a farm where butter making was a weekly chore. We made yogurt from the milk also so milk process was always second nature to me.” The words above come from...
Yvonne McKay, aka Eve, the creator and owner of Eve’s Leaves, first began her food journey thirty years ago, when her first child started to eat solid foods: “I started to really think about what...
“Our first job on the farm is the sowing of our first broccoli, which usually begins in mid-January. Depending on weather, we start planting out our crop in late march and hopefully begin harvesting...
Food Academy is a joint initiative between SuperValu, Bord Bia and the network of Local Enterprise Offices in order to support early-stage Irish food businesses. To celebrate five years of Food Academy, Hector travelled...
Velvet Cloud is a handmade natural sheep’s milk yogurt produced by husband and wife team, Aisling and Michael Flanagan, in Co. Mayo. The pair have always had a great love of food and have...
Variety is the spice of life and when it comes to food, you can’t beat vibrant dishes bursting with flavour. A product that certainly adds a pop of colour to restaurant dishes is the...
“The inspiration for most of what we do comes from the Wexford countryside. It has definitely inspired our flavours. We look outside and see first hand what is in season and available to work...
Protein is the hot ticket at the moment, perfect for post workout snacks and for an energy boost to get you through the work day. That’s where versatile product, Irish Biltong, comes in. Irish...
Robert Bullock, owner and founder of Le Patissier, has always had a great love of food, something he believes stemmed from his mother’s weekend baking: “My mum is a very good cook and she’d...
Speaking on a slightly distorted phone line between Dublin and Wicklow after the effects of Storm Ophelia, I chatted to Willemien Rust, owner and creator of Miena’s Irish Handmade Nougat. A South African native...
For years, I’ve been paying close attention to what is going on in the craft drinks industry in the USA, for what gets established there as a bona fide trend will, a few years...
“I’ve cooked my way across the globe with a cello on my back, a yoga mat at my feet and a blender at the ready.” These are the words of Tara-Lee Byrne, a professional...
A bowl of sunny yellow pasta pillows, enclosing a rich, fresh and flavoursome filling within its folds, strewn with shavings of Parmigiano-Reggiano and glistening with the sheen of melted butter is surely one of...
If you look back on your university days with nothing more fondness then it’s very likely you have successfully blocked from your mind certain memories, the ones which have continued to haunt the rest...
“I often reflect now that I should have started my voyage with the knife and the chopping board a lot earlier, but such is the nature of things. Perhaps if I had started earlier...
It’s 1987 and sitting in a kitchen in the small town of Castletownbere in the west of Cork, two young friends with a keen interest in fishing founded what would later become Shellfish Ireland....
Committing with gusto to the theme of ‘Flavours of the World’, this year’s Taste of Dublin was a riot of colour and feast of flavours as more than thirty chefs offered edible escapism serving...
Is it possible to have a Full Irish without black and white pudding? As a huge fan of one of our country’s foremost delicacies, the measure of our national breakfast, for me, is the...
‘Superfoods’: despite the good intentions, it’s a term that can generate quite a bit of bad press. For every headline that reveals the latest wonder food we need in our kitchens to boost health, there...