Posts Tagged ‘James Whelan Butchers’

Mouth-watering Tipperary Food Producers Long Table Dinner a sell-out success THE FOUNDER of the Grow It Yourself (GIY) network, Michael Kelly, has urged consumers to grow their own food and support local producers in order to transform the food chain and “bring some common sense” back into our relationship with what we eat. He told 300 […]

Terry Flanagan from Derek Mooney’s RTE Radio 1 show visits Pat Whelan’s farm in Clonmel to find out about his new Kobe Wagyu herd. Publication Date: 11 August, 2011 Listen: Online – Click Listen on Thursday 11 August, 2011 (Starts 1 hours 14 minutes) Note: You will need RealPlayer to listen We hope you enjoyed […]

Pat Whelan introduces the Long Table Dinner 2011 and some of the Tipperary Food Producers on TV3’s Morning Show. Publish Date: 24 August, 2011 View: Full Episode Online 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 […]

This is the season to give thanks for the fruits of land and sea At harvest time, lovers of good food can tuck into fabulous fare all over the country, writes Lucinda O’Sullivan Publish Date: 21 August, 2011 View: Article Online We hope you enjoyed reading this post by Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers. […]

Gillian Nelis writes an interesting article in the Sunday Business Post giving a background to the Long Table Dinner 2011 and how it is organized by the Tipperary Food Producers to showcase their local produce. Publication Date: 21 August, 2011 View: Article Online We hope you enjoyed reading this post by Pat Whelan of James Whelan […]

  I’m always interested in how food trends spread around the world and how we adopt and adapt other country’s traditions. For some reason Tapas have registered on my radar several times over the past few weeks. Perhaps it’s just the summer and people looking to warmer countries for inspiration. So what is ‘tapas’ and […]

  The Butcher’s Apprentice; I just can’t help thinking it would make a great name for a heavy rock band or perhaps a race horse. It’s on my mind at present because apprentice positions have just opened up here at James Whelan Butchers and with the Leaving Certificate results hot off the presses, new careers […]

  As the old saying goes, necessity really is the mother of invention. I found myself with a small dilemma (tiny in fact as dilemmas go) over the weekend. Approximately half of a pound of butter that had been left out of the fridge was rapidly turning into a too soft, squidgy mess on the […]

  Looking back through my archive of musings for this column over the past three years it would appear that I could pull out the same article each August and reprint it and that’s mainly because of the predictably unpredictable Irish weather. We start off the summer full of anticipation of sunny days, picnics and […]

TIPPERARY Food Producers are once again planning to tantalise the taste-buds of food lovers from all over Ireland with its annual, sumptuous, Long Table Dinner which takes place in the historic grounds of Rockwell College outside Cashel on Wednesday, August 24th. The banquet promises to be a gourmets dream bringing 300 guests on a culinary tour of […]

The longer I’m around food the more I am realising the miracle of natural ingredients. I’m talking about ingredients that haven’t been processed in a clean room, added to and no longer recognisable as their original selves, but real natural foods, grown or reared, that will eventually go off and are still alive inside. Tinned, […]

Another summer is here at last and with it comes the annual Tipperary Food Producers Long Table Dinner. The Long Table Dinner is a celebration of Tipperary food with all of the ingredients coming directly from producers from Co. Tipperary. This year we are delighted to announce that the Long Table Dinner will be hosted […]