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Article: Hold On To What We've Got
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 31, 2009
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GREEN THINKING: IN THE LEAD-UP to the recent Dingle Peninsula
Food and Wine Festival, local farmer Colm Murphy pulled up beside me
in his ageing black pick-up and produced a few ears of corn from the
back. He wanted to know if I thought the corn was good enough to
sell at the festival market, so I duly took them home and cooked
them (husk and halve, steam for 20 minutes, slather with Irish
butter. Cost, excluding the butter: an Americano coffee from our
shop, given in thanks). writes KIERAN MURPHY
Not only was the corn good, it was so good that time slowed down
for a glorious, butter- dripping-down-my-fingers moment of sheer
satisfaction. This food was local, fresh, and so bursting with ...