Grub Circus @ fEAST Cork Food Festival
Location: The Green, Town Parks, Midleton (beside Hurley’s Supervalu)
Times: 11.00am - 4.00pm
This year Grub Circus is coming to the fEAST Cork Food Festival, for a day long extravaganza of family-friendly food-themed events, programmed and hosted by food writer Joe McNamee (Irish Examiner, Irish Restaurant Writer of the Year), including demos, tastings, talks and cooking competitions, and featuring some of Ireland’s top food personalities. There will be plenty of opportunities for audience participation and to taste some of the finest Irish food and beverages around, particularly from East Cork.
Programme highlights include:
Culinary Constellations with Michelin-starred chefs, Damien Grey (two-starred Liath, in Dublin); Rob Krawczyk (one-starred Restaurant Chestnut, in Ballydehob, West Cork); Ahmet Dede (one-starred Dede at the Customs House, Baltimore, West Cork). The three chefs will chat about life at the top of the culinary ladder while cooking up their favourite guilty pleasure street food dishes with plenty of tasting opportunities for the audience.
Spice Genie Chris Braganza, recent winner of RTÉ’s Battle of the Food Trucks, lights a fire under some traditional Irish dishes with an injection of South Indian spices and reminds us that he began his cooking career as a pastry chef with some sweet surprises.
Smokin’ Soul — the high kings of Irish BBQ, Smoking & Grilling, Pat Conway and Jim O’Brien, rock up to Grub Circus for a day of live fire masterclasses, demonstrations of their internationally renowned array of handcrafted BBQ kit, including smokers, grills and BBQs, and plenty of opportunity for the entire audience to taste some divine fire-cooked food. Also featuring Takashi Miyazaki (one-starred Ichigo Ichie, in Cork city) and chef Ivan Whelan. https://smokinsoul.ie
The Cully & Sully Children’s Cooking Competition, with two youthful teams competing for prizes, and captained by top chefs Aishling Moore (Goldie, Cork); and Pam Kelly (The Farmgate Cafe & Restaurant, English Market).
Women, Whiskey and Midleton: What was traditionally viewed as a men-only tipple is moving with the times and no more than at nearby Midleton Distillery and the women-led Method and Madness micro-distillery. Distiller Eva O’Doherty introduces some of the whiskeys with tastes for the audience, we learn about the Midleton Distillery’s long history in the town and one lucky audience member will get a chance to win a bottle of premium Irish whiskey from the distillery.