Tag Archive | Ireland
Cahill’s Irish Porter
Begorah! This was to be my token review for St. Pat’s but tech issues kept me from posting last week. So here’s a quickie for those of you still drunk, hungover, celebrating the Wearin’ o’ the Green: Cahill’s started farming in 1902, tried various attempts at business including launching a dairy and eventually started making […]
The Irish Cheese Revolution: 6 Irish Farmstead Cheeses You Should Know | Serious Eats
Thanks to Hannah Howard for this on noteworthy Irish farmstead cheese: “Leaving the world of French (and Italian, and Spanish) cheese for Irish cheese is a departure in ethos. Over lunch and cheese with Breda of Cooleeney Farm, a small cheesemaking operation in Tipperary, run by her and her family, I learned that Irish cheesemaking […]
Blessed Are the Cheesemakers – WSJ.com
In the burgeoning world of artisanal cheese, Ireland is a land of legend. Starting in the 1970s, a small group of self-taught cheesemakers, centered in the western reaches of County Cork, helped usher in a fine-food revolution by turning an eccentric hobby into an influential craft. By adapting Continental cheesemaking techniques to their remote maritime […]
Jackee Foster: A passion for cheesemaking on Martha’s Vineyard : The Martha’s Vineyard Times
If you want to know anything about cheese, ask Jackee Foster of Oak Bluffs. Ms. Foster is a cheesemaker and cheese connoisseur who is responsible for developing cheeses – mozzarella varieties – for Jan Buhrman of Kitchen Porch Catering and feta for Mermaid Farm. She also teaches cheese workshops for Ms. Buhrman and, on her […]
Cheese ads for children face ban – The Irish Times – Fri, Mar 30, 2012
Go ahead… take away more healthy foods for kids… soon they’ll be left with nothing but bushels of sugary fruits and processed nutrition wafers. Or will they just be fed whiskey while sitting on the couch? Nanny state anyone? Here’s an excerpt from the Irish Times: Celebrities and sports stars, health and nutrition claims, cartoon […]
Cheese fails to please on farm – The Irish Times – Fri, Mar 30, 2012
An interesting and lengthy “business consultancy” on the struggles of running a cheese-making operation in Ireland with hopes of growing into significant distributorship. Excerpt: BOB CUNNINGHAM inherited a traditional dairy farm when his father died. The farm had been in the family for generations and little about it had changed. Cunningham was the first […]
WiTR Review: Gubbeen – Living Off the Land
Cheese: Gubbeen Who: Gubbeen Farmhouse Products Where: West Cork, Ireland Milk: cow, pasteurized Rind: washed Texture: semi-soft Shape: 3lb 8″x3″ rounds Flavor: mushroom, butter, walnuts, cut hay Gubbeen is the Georgian farmhouse that is home to Tom and Giana Ferguson who make the cheese of the same name on their 200 acre farm. The […]
The original farmhouse cheese makers | News from Ireland’s Beara Peninsula
Thursday January 5th, 2012 | southernstar.ie By Nora Strong Saturday January 7th, 2012 So here is a question on which you might like to ponder. What is the connection between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Milleens Cheese? Perhaps you will recall that the Austrian philosopher greatly liked Swiss cheese with rye bread for lunch and henceforth insisted […]
Gold for Fivemiletown in World Cheese Awards
Published on Wednesday 14 December 2011 Northern Ireland’s Fivemiletown Creamery has won gold for its Boilíe, a unique Irish soft goats’ cheese, at the prestigious World Cheese Awards in London. The artisan creamery, a farmers’ co-operative in County Tyrone, also gained a silver award for its naturally smoked Oakwood Cheddar and bronze for its […]
