What do you think…is the Emerald Isle ready for an American vegetarian who cooks California cuisine while taking frequent breaks to play Morris tunes on Canadian pennywhistles?
Come to think of it, I’m not even sure California is ready for that!
Yes, I’m just kidding about moving…but it COULD be a good opportunity for an enterprising chef with a feel for international trade and a burning desire to relo to Ireland. Just think how much easier it would be to find a session!
What do you think…is the Emerald Isle ready for an American vegetarian who cooks California cuisine while taking frequent breaks to play Morris tunes on Canadian pennywhistles?
Redwolf
Naw, they probably just need a good burger (with Bacon(of course))
Or possibly Chili Cheese Dogs
I always thought the food in Ireland was rather good.
Even the “fry everything” breakfasts they serve you in the B&Bs (fried eggs, fried bacon, fried sausages, fried tomatos, fried black pudding, etc.). Yum.
I liked the food there. Vegetables are always very fresh, and the potatoes are delicious. And then the fresh Guinness …mmhhh. The milk is also very good - of course, that’s because the cows are so happy, they enjoy great views of cliffs and the atlantic ocean. Don’t forget the brown bread, so tasty. So what’s wrong with irish food? You should go to England!
Just next door from my small Britton village, in the town of Herbignac, a pair of Americans just purchased back a small shop making and selling wood-carved souvenirs, among which pipes–er, smoking pipes.
They’re in the phase of moving out from the US.
Bu there are some nice opportunities around here for catering…
Another pair just started a new restaurant in Guérande, called The Tuna Bar. Four-score recipes from around the world, all based on simple white fresh tuna… Onlys desserts escape it. And it’s already a success!
Come in the country where food is recognised an Art
On 2003-01-15 05:05, claudine wrote:
So what’s wrong with irish food? You should go to England!
You can say that again.
Being English, I can admit that food from pretty much anywhere else is better, apart from a traditional Sunday Roast.
A country that invented Brown Windsor Soup has a lot to explain away.
When I go out to eat, the choices are Indian, Greek, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Persian, Dutch, French, to name but a few, but nobody ever says “Let’s go for an English”.
Then again, nobody thinks going for an American is a big treat either…
When my wife and I were in Ireland on our honeymoon (almost) 15 years ago, we thought the food was excellent. In fact it was so good and so much of it at all of the B&Bs where we stayed, that we went to a pub just so we could get a plain ham sandwich.
The Guiness was great also…especially in Dublin at the brewery. We got a good laugh at the imported beer being sold in a couple of places (Budweiser).
When you think about it most, no all Irish/scottish traditional cooking must have been Stewwed/slow boilled.
As you don’t get much energy from a slowly burnning sod ! (peat)
still can’t spell_______________
rbm, in the wilds of the English Lake District, where the fells stand proud, the lakes be clear, the clouds are black and the sea be in the celler!
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Me and a friend traveled around Ireland last May and we thought the food was fine and fairly priced when we considered what can of establishment we were eating in.
Pub food was, well pub food. Nothing special but well cooked and fairly inexpensive. Restaurants in Dublin were priced higher but to be expected for the ‘big’ city but not horribly so and the food was ok. A few restaurants we found elsewhere were reasonable. And one we found in the middle of nowhere Connemarra knocked our socks off. I would have paid double for the meal we were served and not batted an eye.
I guess they surveyed a bunch of whiners and French people.
I’m with Jens. I liked the fried breakfasts so much that I do one myself now and then, complete with fried tomatoes and brown soda bread. I love white pudding (can’t find it in the US, though), you can keep the black.
My complaint was the limited number of pub licenses. Many restaurants couldn’t serve beer because they couldn’t get pub licenses. Of course, as far as I’m concerned, the pub food was generally better anyway, but it took us several tries to figure out the pub license situation.
I don’t know much about Irish food, but ken my English awright. Like, I skip it usually. Isle of Man would be a paradise, but for food…
With all these prejudices, I was all the more surprised when visiting West Cornwall last year off-season (spring). The trick was touring the shoreline clockwise, on a motorbike, diving into any backroad going to the left (i.e. closer to the shore).
So we always ended in pubs on the shore, middle of nowhere.
The food was nothing fancy, just fish–fresh, smoked, salted, whatever!–but all from the local fishermen. And of course Cornish red ale, from local micro-breweries.
It’s the best “local” food I ever had in the Bristish isles in 30 years. And it was really good food generally. The only bad experiences we had were when hitting obviously touristic places, like Tintagel. There, we had the same as at the worst suburbian London caterers’ .
I wonder why this choice (local fish, local ale) wouldn’t work on Irish shores ?
A mate of mine used to be one of Guinness’s head brewers, but he left as the way they brew was like a prodution line and not a true Real Ale, He now runs his own brewery only producing organic real ale he won’t use chemicals like some well known beers.
_____________yep still can’t spell
rbm, in the wilds of the English Lake District, where the fells stand proud, the lakes be clear and the sea be in the celler!
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