We’re almost at the end of the month and, it being Sunday, I’ve got the 12th instalment of Food In 5 Minutes for you, available now wherever you get your podcasts.
If you’re new to this then let me tell you that every Sunday morning I release a short form podcast episode, Food In 5 Minutes, that’s part of the Ken On Food podcast. In it, you’ll find five food stories from the Irish food world and beyond, from the past seven days, served up in five minutes, give or take an intro and outro.
On this week’s edition of Food In 5 Minutes, I’ve got another five stories handpicked for you including
- A look at the Connaught regional leg of the 2024 Irish Restaurant Awards
- Mixed news on the Kilkenny food front
- Irish Grass Fed Beef goes PGI and hits the Italian market
- Unilever shedding 7500 jobs globally and separating their ice-cream business
- Tullamore going green as a growing number of cafés take up the 2GoCup initiative
Listen: Food In 5 Minutes #12
Links for this week
- Irish Restaurant Awards: Connaught winners
- Irish Restaurant Awards: Next event details
- The Ground Floor café closes in Kilkenny
- Smithwick’s Experience to mix food trucks and music for the summer in Kilkenny
- Irish grass fed beef (PGI) goes to market in Italy
- PGI ‘Irish Grass Fed Beef’ appears on Italian supermarket shelves
- Financial Times: Fake Magnums too much for Unilever?
- RTÉ: Unilever to sell off ice-cream business
- Unilever to spin off Ben & Jerry’s unit as it announces cost savings plan
- 2GoCup expanding into Tullamore
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