Good Food

Tipperary Food Producers Network as the name suggests is a network of food sector Businesses within Tipperary, the membership of which is varied featuring from strong iconic brands along-side the niche and exclusive. Represented are producers of meat, cheese, bakery, confectionary, fresh produce and beverages, the common ground is quality, excellence and a passion for […]

The summer really is the season to embrace when it comes to fresh food.  From the limited harvest of tasty spring offerings we suddenly open up to a glut of new flavours.  It’s also a great time for traditional fruits and salad vegetables. Berries, plums, peaches, tomatoes, lettuce and all the herbs are in abundance.  […]

As a nation we like to talk about the weather it is our ‘got to’ ice breaker for any and every occasion. It is strange that we have such a fascination with the elements given that we live in a relatively moderate climate and extremes are unusual. However, this winter has been one of them. […]

Inspiration for food, how we eat and how we cook is all around us. It is often a simple phrase, something in a newspaper, an innocent observation perhaps that will strike a mental chord and turn into a food thought. Writing also shares that space of infinite inspiration in the world around and about us. […]

If we’ve never met then I can say with some degree of certainty that no one would ever choose to use the word ‘dainty’ in a description of me. The food I like and enjoy also falls into the more robust category. For example I like meaty, rustic, slow cooked one pots that are drenched […]

[slideshow post_id=”4367″ width=”auto” height=”650″ showthumbs=”true” resizeimages=”true” gallery link=”4367″ orderby=”ASCE” gallery order=”ASCE” orderby=”random”] We hope you enjoyed reading this post by Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers. Pat is a 5th generation butcher, cook book author and the director of  James Whelan Butchers with shops in Clonmel, the Avoca Handweavers Rathcoole and Kilmacanogue, Dunnes Stores Cornelscourt, […]

It’s been a while since Shrove Tuesday and Valentines Day came in the same week but an early Easter for 2013 has decreed it.  Looking ahead it’s going to be a very busy March as we seem to be packing all the spring celebrations together; St Patrick’s Day, Mothers Day and Easter will come close […]

Christmas is such as special time in the business, the excitement, the fun, the laughter and the great food. This year, I brought the camera with me on one of the days leading up to Christmas. I’d like to share with you some of the images here. They capture the spirit of the season and […]

If there are positives to be taken from the current financial climate then for butchers it has to be the renewed interest in the cheaper and less regarded cuts of meat. I’m quite thrilled by this because in our more affluent years we gradually lost out on so much when it came to taste and […]

Tipperary butcher launches world’s first Beef Bonds Delicious dividends guaranteed with novel new investment idea An innovative Tipperary butcher is giving Irish investors an alternative to the financial markets by offering them the opportunity to put their money into Beef Bonds! Pat Whlean, of James Whelan Butchers in Clonmel,  launched the World’s first Irish Beef Bonds on Tuesday November 13th – […]

“Street Food” is something I’m hearing and reading a lot about and I’m still not sure I fully understand what it is, but it has certainly elevated the standard of food-to-go generally and it seems to be creating great excitement. On a recent trip to America you can imagine my excitement when I not just discovered […]

I don’t watch a great deal of television, but certainly I see more in the autumn and winter than I would on brighter evenings in the middle of the year. When I return to television having been away for the summer months it can be quite exciting and the winter schedules always contain new programmes […]