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Feast Cork launches festival programme in Castlemartyr Resort
Guests gathered last
night, Wednesday 15 August, for the launch of Feast Cork 2018’s activity-packed pro- gramme in the gor- geous surrounds of The Garden Room at Cas- tlemartyr Resort.
Now in its 15th to 9th
Feast Cork 2018 runs from 2nd
year, Sep-
tember, again based in the market town of Midleton with its rich food heritage but with a strong focus on the wider region, and will once again be a food and drink festival with a sure sense of place.
pens at
A festival that hap- harvest
time – appropriately for a
gathering up and bring- ing together of the best of what the area has to offer – Feast Cork is a fresh blend of conver- sations, dinners, mar- kets, foraging, mixology, produce, producers, landscape, heritage and storytelling.
General Manager
of Castlemartyr Resort Brendan Comerford
opened proceedings
by welcoming guests, then introduced Kevin Aherne of Sage in Mid- leton and festival Direc- tor one of the driving forces behind the fes- tival, who discussed in detail what makes this such an exhilarating week-long
celebration
for food lovers of all ages.
Bringing host of together a hardworking,
innovative food pro- ducers from all over this landscape that is largely defined by food pro- duction and food herit- age, Feast Cork 2018 is designed
to
those producers in the most enjoyable
introduce way.
Whether it’s sampling cheese, seeing
behind
the scenes in a bou- tique chocolate factory, expert-led
edible
foraging or searching for
mushroom seaweeds
by the seashore, Feast Cork 2018 promises an up close and personal take
who make and produce some of the region’s most distinctive foods.
from the people Beginning with the
official opening on Sun- day night, September 2nd
itage Centre, the week of Feast
, in the Jameson Her- Cork 2018
has food-focused events daily, including inter- esting and intriguing long table dinners, lei- surely Sunday lunches, distillery tours and fun food stories to explore. The festival’s big day out, the main event, is on Saturday Septem- ber 8th
, when the en-
tire town of Midleton is animated by this vi- brant and exciting fes- tival from early in the morning to late in the evening. That has the street market, farmers’ market and garden- ing workshops running all day from Midleton Community Garden and GIY, the not-for- profit social enterprise dedicated to supporting people to grow some of their own food at home, school, work or in the community. With an East Cork restaurant tent packed with chef demos, and a Future of Food dialogue & lunch in SAGE, there’s plenty
for people to get their teeth into, and town will be buzzing.
launch night in Cas- tlemartyr Resort
With drinks on from
festival sponsor Irish Distillers
designed including
Jameson with ginger ale and lime, and delicious canapés
to
give guests a flavour of the region, the overview of this year’s festival created a real sense of anticipation for all the exciting events, dinners, opportunities to engage with producers and makers and family-fo- cused activities sched- uled
for 2018. East Cork Jour-
nal are this year proud media sponsors for the Feast Cork Festival.
over seven days, from September 2nd
Feast Cork 2018 runs -9th
, with
tickets for all events now on sale.
For the gramme see full pro- https://
www.feastcork.ie/
• Gemma Atkinson and Dan O’Donovan, Ulster Bank, Midlstone with Ailsing McCormack, Castlemartyr Resort pictured at the launch of FEAST Cork food and drink festival at Castlemartyr Resort,
www.feastcork.ie. Photo Joleen Cronin
Feast Cork
•Kevin Ahern of Feast (centre) with Holly and Colin Hennessy, Pier 26, Ballycotton pictured at the launch of FEAST Cork food and drink festival at Castlemartyr Resort,
www.feastcork.ie. Photo Joleen Cronin
Thursday, 23rd
August 2018
• Cllr Susan McCarthy, Midleton and
• Stephen Bender and Michele Cashman. Ballinrostig Organic Cheese pictured at the launch of FEAST Cork food and drink festival at Castlemartyr Resort,
www.feastcork.ie. Photo Joleen Cronin
• Fenella and Tadgh O Driscoll pictured at the launch of FEAST Cork food and drink festival at Castlemartyr Resort, www.
feastcork.ie.
Photo Joleen Cronin
Victor McCaffrey, Print Profile, Midleton pictured at the launch of FEAST Cork food and drink festival at Castlemartyr Resort,
www.feastcork.ie. Photo Joleen Cronin
• Kevin and Réidín Ahern, of Sage Midleton and Feast pictured at the launch of FEAST Cork food and drink festival at Castlemartyr Resort, www.
feastcork.ie.
Photo Joleen Cronin
RoseAnne Kidney, Goldie Fish Events, Cork; Jack O’Sullivan, Granary Foodstore, Midleton; Kate Ryan,
Flavour.ie , Clonakilty
Tel: 021 463 8000 • Email:
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Peter Clifton, Rostellan Chocolate and Stephen Belton, Bayview Hotel, Ballycotton
eastcorkjournal
• Fern Allen and Dervilla O’Flynn pictured at the launch of FEAST Cork food and drink festival at Castlemartyr Resort,
www.feastcork.ie. Photo Joleen Cronin
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