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Links This Episode

• Ken On Food
• The Week In Food (Free newsletter)
• Virgin Media Business Gold Medal Hotel Awards Finalists Announced
• Healthy Ireland Survey 2024
• Health Ireland Survey 2024 summary report PDF
• Annual review and outlook for agriculture, food and the marine for 2024
• Download FSAI Strategy 2025-2029 (PDF)
• Court concludes Oatly cannot use term 'milk' in its marketing
• Oatly loses court battle with Dairy UK over use of ‘milk’ in trademark

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• Yulefest Kilkenny markets have started
• Irish Food History: A Companion by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman wins at Irish Book Awards
• Buy Irish Food History: A Companion on Amazon (aff)
• Three Irish restaurants added to MICHELIN Guide in November
• Now Irish recyclers can empty an entire bag of drink containers in seconds: introducing TOMRA R1
• Cork’s Coffee Houses Get a Night-Lift with ‘Coffee House Lates’
• New initiative sees coffee shops open late in Cork city
• Hotel & Catering 2025 salary guide (PDF)
• Surge of cash-in-hand pay in hospitality sector

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• Christmas markets in Kilkenny
• Check Kilkenny Chamber’s Instagram account for a full breakdown of winners in all categories
• Academics, regulators and the Food Industry unite to combat food fraud
• Ireland to lead new EU project to combat food fraud
• Investigations & fraud (FSAI)
• Bord Bia Awarded €3.2 Million for ‘European Dairy – Where Nature Meets Science’ Campaign
• Wolverine Packing Co. Recalls Ground Beef Products Due to Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination
• Over 160,000 pounds of ground beef recalled due to E. coli risk
• U.S. food safety system crumbles as E. coli crisis spreads nationwide
• McDonald’s To Create 1,000 Jobs In Ireland
• McDonald’s to add 1,000 jobs in Ireland with €40m investment
• McDonald’s Social & Economic Impact Report

For these stories in written form, plus extra reading for your weekend, 5 recipes for the week ahead and my podcast pick, check out the 47th edition of The Week In Food, available free via Substack.

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You've come to the right place. As Sunday rolls round again, I've got the 46th helping of Food In 5 Minutes for you, delivering a bite-size news recap of stories from the past seven days that have caught my eye, all served up in five minutes or less-ish.

If you missed last week's edition, talking about the Irish Food Writing Awards, Christmas markets and more, you can find it here or wherever you get your podcasts.

Links This Episode

• Kilkenny’s Campagne ‘Highly Commended’ as 2024 Food & Wine Restaurant of the Year award winners announced
• Restaurant Of The Year website
• Family behind Kilkenny’s Mountain View scoop Food Innovator of the Year at Good Food Ireland awards
• Good Food Ireland Awards 2024 winners
• Malzard’s of Stoneyford in Kilkenny named National Pub of the Year at Irish Pub Awards
• Irish Pub Awards 2024 winners
• 16 Enforcement Orders served on food businesses in October
• Growing costs present major challenge to Ireland’s foodservice sector – Bord Bia

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Links this episode

• Check the full list of Irish Food Writing Awards winners here
• Kilkenny’s Christmas Markets to return as Yulefest kicks off later this month
• Winterval.ie
• Download Tourism Policy Framework 2025-2030
• Homegrown at Maxol announces 2024 winners
• Maxol.ie Homegrown details
• @dublincoffeefest on Instagram
• Sign up for festival alerts here

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• Returning numbers for Savour Kilkenny
• The Listowel Food Fair Programme
• This week's Irish Food Writing Awards night
• The return of Incredible Edibles to Irish primary schools
• The launch of the 2025 Blasta Books series

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• Carlow Restaurant Week, running Saturday 26 October (it's already started) through Saturday 2 November
• The shortlist for the Food & Drink Book of the Year as part of this year's An Post Irish Book Awards
• New organic orchard tours in Kilkenny
• This past week's Asian Restaurant Awards
• The Restaurant Association of Ireland's ten-point manifesto ahead of GE24

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• The Georgina Campbell Irish Food & Hospitality Awards
• Food On The Edge - getting underway this Monday
• Bord Bia's Origin Green programme and the companies awarded gold membership this year
• Ireland's circular economy recommendations including a potential banning of best before dates on fresh produce
• School safety programmes from Agri Aware

Read all about it and get all the links here.

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• The latest enforcement orders issued by the FSAI
• A new survey from Safefood looking at seasonal food promotions
• The launch of the Global Hunger Index for 2024
• A day of action that's being planned for this Tuesday in Dublin and
• The Kilkenny Business Awards nominees on the food and hospitality front

As always, you can get more by either visiting kenonfood.com (Where you'll find full show notes and supporting links) or by subscribing (for free) to my weekly newsletter, The Week In Food, available via Substack.

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• Reaction to Budget 2025 on the hospitality front in Ireland
• The Blas na hÉireann Awards for 2024
• The Food & Wine Restaurant of the Year Awards
• The Good Food Ireland Awards (it's a busy time for awards!)
• And the unveiling of the first MICHELIN Keys for Ireland

Links this episode

• Hospitality sector to hold day of action in response to Budget 2025
• Tone deaf Budget failed to deliver for restaurants, cafés and the entire hospitality sector
• Blas na hÉireann winners
• Blas na hÉireann 2024: Small artisan producers reign supreme
• The Food&Wine Restaurant of the Year shortlists revealed
• Good Food Ireland Awards shortlist revealed
• 123 outstanding hotels awarded MICHELIN Keys in Great Britain & Ireland for the very first time

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• The launch of Savour Kilkenny for 2024
• How we're doing on the sugar tax front
• New research on the coffee habits of those of us living in the Leinster region
• Last calls for the restoration of the 9% VAT rate before Wednesday's budget reveal
• The timings for Blas na hÉireann this coming Friday

Links this episode...

• SavourKilkenny.com
• KenOnFood.com (with launch night audio)
• The Evaluation of Ireland’s Sugar-Sweetened Drinks’ Tax
• fixxcoffee.com
• Hospitality groups warn of growing commercial crisis
• Awards Presentation Timings 2024 - Blas na hEireann
• Taste Trail - Dingle Food Festival - Féile Bia Dhaingean Uí Chúis

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1. The launch of Agri Aware's new Come Farm With Me series for primary schools
2. Belfast Restaurant Week
3. A looming crisis in the hospitality sector
4. Peanut allergy warnings due to potentially contaminated mustard
5. A new food market space for Galway may finally be a reality.

Here's some links to help you on your way...

• Agriaware.ie
• New ‘day in the life’ Agri Aware farm webinar series launched
• Belfast Restaurant Week - What's on
• VAT rise could lead to 21,000 food services job losses, report predicts
• Hospitality warns of 'commercial crisis' if VAT rate is not decreased
• Food safety warning to people with a peanut allergy to avoid all mustard products
• Possible presence of peanut in specific batches of Domino's Garlic & Herb and Domino's Mustard & Honey dips
• Possible presence of peanut in specific batches of Carlos Takeaway Garlic & Herb Dip
• FSA warns those allergic to peanuts to avoid food containing mustard over contamination risk, as some products recalled
• Galway Food Market - ePlanning archive
• Plans lodged for “Galway Food Market” at former Connacht Tribune Printing Press

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Links this episode

• The Pink Box, Kilkenny (Instagram)
• Regional Food Starter Programme (via Kilkenny LEO)
• NPA.ie - National Ploughing Championships
• Public Consultation on the Draft National Organic Strategy up to 2030
• Lidl's Kickstart graduates see products hit shelves on Thursday; who's made the 2024 list?
• SuperValu survey - The Table or the Tablet
• Golden fork nominees
• Full list of Great Taste Awards winners 

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Handy links

• Visit savourkilkenny.com (at a glance programme)
• Ticketed event highlights for Savour Kilkenny 2024
• ListowelFoodFair.ie
• Listowel Food Fair Instagram account
• Growing Chinese middle class looking for Irish spirits
• Download the latest ifac Food & Agribusiness report
• Two in five food and agribusinesses have cashflow issues
• Exports and sustainability high on agenda for Irish food businesses
• Hard-hitting warning labels should be on everyday food, say campaigners
• Irish Heart Foundation: A public health (obesity) act

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This week brings you news on the closure of Breadman Walking in Dublin, the decline in Irish pub numbers, some new TV courtesy of Neven Maguire, calls for milk in schools and the Waterford Harvest Festval.

Dublin city ‘nano-bakery’ Breadman Walking to close after enforcement action

Full statement on closure via Instagram

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Support Growth: A Sustainable Future for Ireland’s drinks and hospitality sector (PDF download)

SupportYourLocal.ie

Donegal Town's Chandpur Indian Restaurant to feature on Neven Maguire TV show

No drink given with new Hot School Lunches scheme – Over half of Irish parents think milk should be provided

Only 4% of Irish Teenagers are meeting their Dietary Guidelines – Major Nutrition Conference in Belfast this week

Visit waterfordharvestfestival.ie

View the daily breakdown here

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That said, I'm noticing more these days that the timer is running closer to the seven-minute mark, but that's neither here nor there. With the podcast available every Sunday morning, you can also get a written accompaniment packed with recipes to try, more podcast listening, some long reads for your Sunday coffee in more, all right here. It's called The Week In Food and it drops into inboxes around the world about 7am on Sunday mornings.

This week's podcast looks at mounting pressures on the hospitality sector, numbers on Ireland's alcohol consumption, concerns over infant food in the US and more.

Supporting links for this episode

• Hospitality groups warn of 'perfect storm' facing industry ahead of Government meetings
• Tourism and hospitality groups plead for Government help ahead of Budget25
• Three amateur bread bakers advance to Rise with Aldi live final
• Estimate of Alcohol Consumption per Adult in 2023
• InterTrade Ireland Supply Chain & Sourcing Service
• Nearly two-thirds of supermarket baby foods are unhealthy, study finds

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Fresh from the shores of Lough Derg (I've been in Dromineer for the weekend), it's time for another helping of Food In 5 Minutes, the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories from the Irish food world and beyond, plucked from the past week, and served up in five minutes or less, ish.

You know the drill.

There's also a newsletter version that includes extra long reads for your Sunday, recipes to try for the week ahead that today includes some easy-bake bread takes, a podcast pick and more.

Grab the latest edition here on Substack or sign up anywhere you see the subscription boxes on the blog to get a fresh copy in your inbox every Sunday morning.

Chef Dylan McGrath shuts Dublin restaurants Brasserie Sixty6 and Rustic Stone

Dylan McGrath closes two of his most famous restaurants

Dylan McGrath closes two Dublin restaurants as business is 'simply not sustainable'

COVID lockdown: Insurers have now paid pubs and restaurants more than €250m

€1 million awarded to develop five Gala Dinner Venues

€1 million awarded to develop five Gala Dinner Venues to attract international Business Events

FSAI official release

Popular Dublin pub Hartigan’s among 12 food businesses issued with closure orders last month

Visit irishfoodawards.com

Irish Food Awards: 8 Kilkenny businesses named finalists for this year’s Blas na hÉireann awards in Dingle

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LINKS THIS EPISODE

• 577 Irish Food-Led Businesses Have Closed Since VAT Rise Last September
• Over 570 restaurants ‘forced to close’ since September VAT hike.
• Waterford Harvest Festival – What’s On
• Belfast Restaurant Week (official website)
• Belfast Restaurant Week to return this October with a fresh flavour to support city centre’s hospitality scene
• EU ice cream production fell by 1.4% in 2023
• Ireland is the fifth-largest exporter of ice cream in the EU
• Walkers teams up with Heinz to launch three new crisp flavours — and one is controversial

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• Three new eateries opening in Kilkenny in recent weeks (with one about to open)
• Calls for the restoration of the 9% VAT rate for hospitality heading to Europe
• The expansion of the Hot School Meals programme
• ALDI ditching their blue bottle caps as their sustainability push continues
• Weird TikTok food trends

Links to check

• Kelly calls for reinstatement of 9% VAT rate for hospitality
• Minister Humphreys announces 168 additional Primary Schools approved for Hot School Meals
• Further 168 primary schools to get hot meals from September
• Aldi Ireland makes huge change to popular product across all 161 Irish stores (Irish Mirror)
• This week's edition of The Week In Food

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It’s been another busy week in the world of food, with plenty to chew on from home and abroad. At time of release I'm currently in Galway seeking out some new food and drink spots to write home about.

Before we get into this week’s stories, if you’d like more, head over to the blog now – that’s kenonfood.com – or visit kenonfood.substack.com and take a few membership to my newsletter The Week In Food, dropping every Sunday morning online and in your inbox.

Links this week...

• Wexford Food Family
• Cost of ice cream on the rise (Live 95)
• UK ice-cream and lolly prices up by more than 30%, analysis shows
• Truck driver jobs see 83% increase in demand - Indeed (RTÉ)
• Irish food businesses in 'survival mode' as industry profit margins fall below 1%, warns report
• Supermac’s chief wants VAT reprieve for food businesses
• Restaurants Association Of Ireland Warns That Sector Is In ‘Survival Mode’
• National Organic Awards 2024
• National Organic Awards open for entries

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Take a listen to this week's stories.

Resources this episode

• Taste of Kildare official website
• Taste of Kildare ticket details
• Edible Dublin Food Strategy
• Advice for consumers regarding consumption of slush ice drinks
• Nearly half of Dublin food pubs report business decline due to VAT increase - LVA
• 48% of Dublin pubs who serve food say VAT increase has lead to drop in business
• LVA call for VAT cut again
• Sugar tax on beverages – activism or sensible measure? (original article, translated from German)
• Germany mulls sugar tax: What are the benefits?
• Germany's potential billions in savings and health gains with sugar-sweetened beverage tax
• Sugar tax in Germany could save up to 16 billion euros (Study)
• Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax (SSDT) (Revenue.ie)

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Supporting links for this week's stories can be found below.

Carlow Tourism

Carlow Garden Festival

Safefood: Meat thermometer use grows 20%

Coffee prices to keep rising for at least another year

Coffee prices will rise even higher (The Guardian)

Waterford Harvest Festival - What's On

Waterford Harvest Festival - Trader applications now open

US food giant Wendy's to launch in Ireland early next year (Newstalk)

US fast food chain Wendy's to open in Ireland (Irish Times)

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Read up on the stories in full with the links below.

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• 90 million drinks containers returned in June as Ireland averages Three million bottles and cans per day
• As schools close for summer, many children benefiting from Hot School Meals Scheme risk missing out on their only hot meal of the day
• Call for scheme to tackle 'holiday hunger' in children
• Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks
• Non-alcohol beer continues to grow in popularity according to new report from Drinks Ireland|Beer
• Non-alcohol beer continues to grow in popularity – Drinks Ireland
• A New Two Star Restaurant in The MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2024
• The Guild entry in Michelin Guide
• Dubai restaurant that includes a Kilkenny man among its Head Chefs secures Michelin special award

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Links for this week's stories...

• Ireland’s food waste equivalent to over one million meals per day, new figures show
• EPA: 53,000t of food waste generated at production stage
• Tayto recalls crisps after ‘golf ball contamination’
• FSAI Tayto recall notice
• FSAI Spuddy’s recall notice
• Sage announces restaurant closure online
• Sage Restaurant in Midleton to close after 16 years in business
• Kevin Aherne on his next plan after Midleton's Sage Restaurant closes
• R&D leads to major Marks & Spencer deal for Fermoy business
• Dairy Concepts wins new contract with Marks & Spencer
• Cork’s Dairy Concepts secures international contract with M&S
• Here’s Why McDonald’s Scrapped Its Plant-Based Burger in America
• McDonald's says verdict is in: US customers do not like McPlant burgers

Get bonus stories, recipes and a podcast pick for this week in the latest edition of The Week In Food, available here for free.

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This week shines a light on...

• SafeFood's Talk About Food report
• Food Vision 2030 - Annual report 2023
• Food Vision 2023 - Annual report 2022
• Food Vision 2023 breakdown
• Opportunity to acquire a portfolio of KFC restaurants in Ireland
• Crunch time looms for smokey bacon crisps as EU bans potential cancerous flavouring
• EFSA: Smoke flavourings
• Member States endorse withdrawal of smoke flavourings from EU market
• Lab-grown burgers and cricket salads 'could be meal staples' by 2054
• More talk about lab-grown burgers and cricket salads

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This week's story highlights include...

• Birdhill Coffee Festival
• FSAI enforcement orders for May 2024
• Full list of winners: 2024 National Dairy Awards
• EY Future Consumer Index
• Theatre of Food: Grub Circus at this year's All Together Now

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• A new survey detailing the impact of the VAT rate hike on Irish food-led businesses
• The launch of the Co-Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
• How free app TooGoodToGo has helped rescue over 1m bags and boxes of food from waste
• The judging of this year's Great Taste Awards, held this past week in Tipperary and
• How scientists and chocolatiers are joining forces to help find a more sustainable approach to making chocolate

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• Learn about the finals of the 2024 Irish Restaurant Awards
• Check out some of the lineup on the food side of this year's Kaleidoscope Festiavl
• Discover a new exhibition rooted in an 18th century kitchen in Roscommon
• Review new research from Safefood highlighting food safety concerns about smart device usage in the kitchen and
• See who's been picked for this year's Grow with ALDI campaign as products hit shelves this week.

As always, you can check kenonfood.com for links and more details, or head on over to my Substack to grab the latest helping of The Week In Food.

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• A look at the Yes Chef annual awards for 2024, held in Dundalk earlier this week
• A look ahead to this year's All-Ireland final of the Irish Restaurant Awards, due to take place in Dublin this Monday
• Some new additions to Taste Of Dublin, setting up shop in a new location next month
• A new whiskey from Michael Flatley, our very own Lord of the Dance
• More funding for food waste production initiatives as the FoodCloud Growers Project gets a financial injection from the State

As always, you can find more on the newsletter, available now at kenonfood.substack.com or if you've got a story to share, drop an email at any stage to ken@kenonfood.com

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This week's headlines include a look at

• The full lineup for this year's Bord Bia Bloom over the June bank holiday weekend
• Drive-thru sausage rolls becoming a thing in Northern Ireland
• The highest enforcement orders from the FSAI for 2024 to date last month (and here)
• The lineup reveal for Beyond The Plate at this year's Beyond The Pale festival
• How a drought in Mexico is leading to a Sriracha shortage in the US

As always, if you've got a story to share, pop an email to ken@kenonfood.com.

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I'll blame the former for the extra few hours in the bed this morning before the podcast release, but as always on a Sunday, I've got five more stories from the food world for you to digest and read up on while you sink your morning coffee.

Check the links below for stories mentioned in this week's episode.

• Healthy Carlow on Facebook
• Millions of euros unclaimed from Deposit Return Scheme
• Official release via gov.ie as outdoor table fees waived for 2024
• US fast food chains may have to amp up promotions as more people eat at home
• ‘Unethical’ junk food packaging manipulates children into craving sweets, report claims
• Join the Ken On Food newsletter for free via Substack
• 5 Cinco de Mayo recipes to try this week

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It’s been another busy week on the food front and another busy week in general as all of a sudden we’re hitting the end of April, gearing up for the May Bank Holiday weekend, Foodie Fest hitting Kilkenny (more on that in the podcast). As always, if you’ve got a story to share, email me at any stage, it’s ken@kenonfood.com or give me a shout anywhere you find @kenonfood on socials.

Links for this week's episode

• Foodiefest.ie
• Agri Aware's Healthy Eating Week
• Incredible Edibles
• Repak.ie: Don't waste earth day
• GLAS @ TU Dublin anniversary celebrations
• West Clare town bucking the national trend of restaurant closures

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As Sunday rolls around again, I've got another five stories for you from the Irish food world and beyond over the past week including

• The Dublin leg of the Irish Restaurant Awards, with the shortlists out this past week
• A new report from the RAI exploring the economic impact of the closure of over 200 food-led businesses since the start of the year
• A story on how poor weather conditions throughout the UK and Europe could lead to food shortages in the UK in 2024
• Aldi's all-new private-label baby formula brings some interesting survey results on the grocery front
• SuperValu too have been at the surveys, this time with GIY to look at where and how families are growing vegetables at home

As always, if you've got a story to share, drop me an email at any time to ken@kenonfood.com and if you enjoy what you here today and every Sunday, consider leaving a quick 5-star review for the podcast in Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you do your podcast listening.

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• The Ulster round of the Irish Restaurant Awards (more here)
• The 2024/2025 San Pellegrino Young Chef Academy competition (more here)
• Ireland's Senoptica (interesting food tech) getting FDA approval for their entry into the US market (more here and here)
• registrations for Street Feast, taking place this coming May (next month)
• the 2024 Waterford Festival of Food

Got a story to share? Email ken@kenonfood.com and we'll talk!

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It may have been a storm-filled, rain-sodden week on Irish soil, but there’s never a dull moment in the world of food and this week I’ve got another five stories for you to accompany your Sunday brew. If you’d like more details, extra reading, recipes to try for the week ahead and a podcast pick to match, consider a free membership to my Substack newsletter, it’s called The Week In Food and you’ll find it at kenonfood.substack.com or get links on the blog. Much like this podcast, it drops in your mail every Sunday morning.

Links you'll need this week...

• Keith Boyle appointed Executive Chef at Kilkenny's Mountain View
• FoodieFest.ie
• Fáilte Ireland launches five-year tourism development plan for Sligo
• Irish Food Writing Awards
• Agriland: Climate-friendly milk
• Dublin's victorian food market to reopen in 2026

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• Facebook @kenonfood
• Instagram @kenonfood
• TikTok @kenonfood

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On this week's podcast there's a look at

• The Munster round of the Irish restaurant awards
• An increase in insolvencies in Ireland for Q1 2024, the hospitality sector taking the biggest hit
• New pizza and donut offerings in Kilkenny
• Opportunities for young chefs when it comes to seafood
• The full lineup for the Ballymaloe Festival of Food

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• A look at the Connaught regional leg of the 2024 Irish Restaurant Awards
• Mixed news on the Kilkenny food front
• Irish Grass Fed Beef goes PGI and hits the Italian market
• Unilever shedding 7500 jobs globally and separating their ice-cream business
• Tullamore going green as a growing number of cafés take up the 2GoCup initiative

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We're flying through the year and all of a shot find ourselves smack bang in the middle of March. On this week's helping of Food In 5 Minutes you'll hear about

• The Leinster regional round of the Irish Restaurant Awards
• A potential ban on good food going to waste
• Ireland's renewed commitment to the UN World Food Programme
• Entries for this year's Blas na hÉireann awards
• Some statistics on the early uptake of Ireland's deposit return scheme

As always, you can get in touch with your own stories (and I'd love to hear from you) by emailing ken@kenonfood.com.

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• one very expensive bottle of Irish whiskey
• details on the West Waterford Festival of Food
• potential changes for fast food outlets in Ireland
• the key to better brain health
• what thieves are really after when it comes to shoplifting in Spain

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It's been another busy week on the food front in Ireland some new festivals making their presence felt ahead of the summer rush, new reports out on food waste and more.

This week's helping of Food In 5 minutes will introduce you to

1. FoodieFest, taking place in Kilkenny over the May Bank Holiday weekend
2. Ballymaloe Festival of Food, bound for Cork this summer to help celebrate 60 years of food at Ballymaloe
3. The Leinster round of the Irish Restaurant Awards
4. Some recent figures around food waste in Ireland (March 1 was National Stop Food Waste day) and
5. New research around the consumption of ultra-processed foods (hard to avoid them these days) and what it means for your physical and mental health

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• The Killarney Coffee Cup Project as it gathers pace and scoops national awards
• Another round of Irish restaurant closures as the cafe crunch shows no signs of slowing down for some
• Supermarket wars that lead to billions in Irish investment
• An ages-old sourdough starter in the US
• and Starbucks adding a slice of pork to your morning brew

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• The rise in online attacks on restaurants in the UK, in particular plant-based restaurants
• The most vegetarian-friendly countries in the world, according to one source
• Community cookhouses as a way of helping those struggling financially
• The 2024 Good Food Ireland Awards
• More recycling bins needed for Ireland's Deposit Return Scheme

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• The latest Michelin Star awards and newcomers to the Irish collection
• A booming fish-led business in the Kingdom
• Jamie Oliver's Good School Food Awards
• New numbers from the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and
• Highlights from the Yes Chef Irish Takeaway Awards this week

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It's the part of the Ken On Food podcast where, if you haven't taken in any of January's episodes, you'll find five food stories plucked from Ireland and beyond this past week all summed up in five minutes or less. I like to think of it as the ideal accompaniment to your Sunday morning espresso, me digging through the headlines of the week so you won't have to. If you're thinking on putting on a second coffee, then I've got second helpings for you this week through The Week In Food, my free newsletter that drops every Sunday morning around 7am. You can sign up for free here with each week bringing you the stories featured in the podcast, plus additional reading, recipes for the week ahead, podcast picks and more.

LINKS THIS WEEK

EU food and drink bound for Britain to face extra barriers from today

UK Import Controls: The Border Target Operating Model (TOM)

Food has a huge impact on our climate - Amsterdam backs global 'Plant-Based Treaty'

Amsterdam becomes the first EU capital city to endorse the call for a Plant Based Treaty in response to the climate emergency

Challenging margins: Café crunch hits Kilkenny as The Cutting Vedge to close its doors

The Cutting Vedge on Facebook

Kilkenny hotels strike gold, silver at 2023 Virgin Media Business Gold Medal Awards

2023 Gold Medal Awards winners list + photographs

Nearly half of all EU honey imports likely fraudulent

Parliament, member states strike deal on 'breakfast directive' to combat food fraud

Proposed changed via EU parliament (April 2023)

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• brush up on the latest around restaurant closures in Ireland as the hospitality sector gets described as 'carnage'
• check out the world's fastest cup of coffee
• celebrate the best of Irish cheese and restaurants
• take a food challenge in Tokyo to beat salarymen at their own game

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Food In 5 Minutes brings you five food stories from Ireland and beyond, served up in five minutes or less.

You can find the links to all the stories mentioned this week by visiting kenonfood.com.

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Stories mentioned on this week's edition.

1. Diners need less food on plates to cut waste, says minister
2. Restaurant Association chief warns of more restaurant closures in 2024
3. Almost 50 food-led businesses that shut in November 'the tip of the iceberg'
4. Food For Thought: Chef JP McMahon's culinary predictions for 2024
5. Get an early taste of top food trends for 2024: Recipes, tips and products rising in popularity
6. 2024 food trends you're about to see everywhere
7. OECD report puts UK and Ireland top for five-a-day fruit and veg consumption
8. OECD Health at a Glance report
9. Male astronauts heading to Mars could thrive on this vegetarian salad

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