The Artisanal Food Movement Finds Ireland

Travel Blog  •  Joanna Kakissis  •  10.10.08 | 10:59 AM ET

imageIrish cuisine has a long, long way to go before the country’s chefs start petitioning UNESCO to declare the meat, potato and butter-based dishes a national treasure. But when Gourmet’s Colman Andrews visited the southeastern county of Waterford, he discovered an astonishing array of homemade delicacies at the local farmer’s market.

Think Gubbeen cheese, smoked chevre, West Cork guanciale, jalapeņo-laced Irish pork sausages and the soft, flour-powdered rolls called blaa.

Potato soup? So yesterday.

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Photo by Zesmerelda via Flickr (Creative Commons).

Tags: Food, Europe, Ireland, News and Briefs

Joanna Kakissis's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post, among other publications. A contributor to the World Hum blog, she's currently a Ted Scripps fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado in Boulder.


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