Feast - East Cork Food & Drink Festival

We're all set and ready to go for Feast - East Cork Food & Drink Festival 🌭

The grills are on until 4pm, we've got Footlongs, Sausage Sandwiches & Sausags Boxes 🙌

Will we see you there?

Looking for a fun way to feed everyone on Sunday? This is a good shout 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3p2dvkyp

SECAD is delighted to be part of Feast - East Cork Food & Drink Festival again this year!

MY Place
Mill Road
Midleton
Sunday, 8th September
12.00 pm to 2.00 pm
All are welcome to come along to try free samples of cuisine from around the world in a family friendly atmosphere

SECAD Food Village – outside Midleton Courthouse
11.00 am – 3.00 pm
Meet with local food producers supported by SECAD, to taste some samples and purchase some of their tasty treats.

Cork County Council Saleen & District Residents Association Whitegate Residents Association Carrigtwohill Community News Cloyne Community Little Island Community Association Little Island Business Association Glanmire Today Glanmire Chamber Kalyna The Midleton Hub Midleton & East Cork Social Prescribing Midleton & Area Chamber Little Island Business Association Castlemartyr Community-Council Killeagh Inch Community Council Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge Community Council Ladysbridge Hall Mogeely Matters, past and present. MY Place Midleton Midleton Family Resource Centre Youghal Chamber of Tourism and Development Youghal Community Health Project Cumann Na Daoine Cry Youghal Midleton News Hello East Cork East Cork Edition The Douglas Post Independent Irish Examiner EchoLive.ie C103 Cork Cork's Red FM

The wait is over! 🥳

fEast 2024 kicks off today. We have so many amazing events for you all week.

Save this as a handy guide to all our events throughout the week. 📍

There's a mixture of free and paid events, with something for all ages. Tickets can be bought via our website or the link in our bio. 🎟️

We hope you can join us to celebrate the food and drink culture of East Cork.

Thanks for the write up Cork Beo - we can't wait!

Amazing food and free family fun as fEast Cork festival kicks off this week

Volunteers Needed!

Are you free to lend a hand at fEast 2024 on Sunday 8th September?

Contact [email protected] for more info.

Food provided for all volunteers.

Cook The Books!

In our final Food Culture Chat, Kate Ryan flavour.ie talks to a panel of food writers from Cork and beyond talk about new books they have launched.

We will talk about what it takes to write a cookery book; the changing face of book publishing in Ireland; books that reflect a modern multicultural Ireland, and cookbooks for children.

Caitlin Ruth (Cork) and Sham Hanifa (Carrick On Shannon) are two of this year’s hugely popular Blasta Books authors. Ruth released Funky earlier this year all about the world of funky pickles, and Hanifa launched Agak Agak in summer all about the food of his Malaysian heritage and family.

Caroline Hennessy (Cork) is an award-winning food writer, journalist, and broadcaster and the author of two books all about beer and food, Slainte (the complete guide to Irish craft beer and cider) and The Official Guinness Cookbook.

Dr Michelle Darmody (Cork and Dublin) is an award-winning food writer, journalist, and educator with a weekly column in the Irish Examiner. Her second book, From Seed to Supper, is a book about food for children to learn about how food is grown, the food system, making good food choices, how to grow and then cook with it, too.

Authors will be available to sign books after the discussion.

🗓️Saturday 7th September 2.30-3.30pm
📍 Midleton Park Hotel
🎟️ Tickets €5 including refreshments

All ticket profits will go back into the festival.

Tickets via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-culture-chats-cook-the-books-tickets-1002265672607?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Drinking Culture! 🥃🍻🍸

In our second Food Culture Chat, Kate Ryan flavour.ie is joined by a panel of experts in the Irish speciality drinks industry to discuss the history, culture, and storytelling of great Irish drinks.

Santina Kennedy formerly of Powerscourt Distillery in Co Wicklow, now an independent drinks consultant with a penchant for mixing history, folklore and art with Irish craft drinks.

Carol Quinn is the archivist for Irish Distillers Ltd in Midleton, and a guardian of almost 200 years of Irish whiskey heritage from Midleton, Cork and Dublin.

Justin Green – owner-proprietor of Ballyvolane House and co-founder of Bertha’s Revenge which was Ireland’s first “milk gin”.

Barry Walsh – co-founder of Killahora Orchards in Glounthaune. Barry and his cousin, Dave, have developed their premium range of apple spirits, wines and ciders sold all around the world.

Justin Green will bring some Bertha Sloe Gin to sample; Santina Kennedy will bring some Whiskey and other goodies to taste and pair with, and Barry will bring some samples from the range of Killahora Orchards premium craft drinks for the audience to taste.

🗓️Saturday 7th September 1-2pm
📍 Midleton Park Hotel
🎟️ Tickets €5 including refreshments and samples

All ticket profits will go back into the festival.

Tickets via link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-culture-chats-drinking-culture-tickets-1002258220317?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Food Culture Chats!

We are thrilled to have the one and only Kate Ryan of flavour.ie hosting a series of panel events on Saturday at this year's fEast.

First up is....

Feirm Factor – The Changing Face of Family Farms

Three family farms discuss their innovations to ensure farm viability for future generations and becoming an important part of their local communities by establishing farm shops, ready-to-eat food products, milk vending, pop-up restaurants, cafes, family activity days and more besides!

Featuring:

Sandra Burns is one half of Joe's Farm Crisps who produce multi-award-winning potato and vegetable crisps where the product is grown, made and packaged on farm. There is also a farm shop, and family events throughout the year.

Olivia and Joe Morrissey are the current owners of Rostellan Farm. Olivia’s vision to create an onsite farm shop and café and investing in milk vending machines to sell their own milk direct to customers has seen the farm become a vibrant and essential part of the Rostellan community.

Peter Twomey is the current generation of Twomey’s to work Glenbrook Farm at White’s Cross. After exclusively working the farm as a dairy enterprise, Peter has completely changed direction to embrace sustainable practice of free-range pig farming on ten acres. Peter is collaborating on a horticulture enterprise on 60 acres with Cork Rooftop Farm

Fallon Moore is one half of Blas Na HEireann – the Irish Food Awards. Over the past 17 years, Blas have raised the profile of hundreds of Irish artisan food producers across Ireland and abroad, including many on-farm innovators.

The panel will provide some samples of their products for the audience to taste, including milk and crisps.

🗓️Saturday 7th September 11.30-12.30
📍Hosted by
🎟️Tickets €5 including refreshments and tasters

All ticket profits will go back into the festival.

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-culture-chats-feirm-factor-the-changing-face-of-family-farms-tickets-1002261660607?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

The Homegrown Menu: A dinner celebrating the best of East Cork produce.

Church Lane Midleton x Feast - East Cork Food & Drink Festival

A delicious evening of locally sourced dishes from the mind of Church Lane Head Chef James Cullinane as part of the fEAST Food & Drink Festival.

Celebrating East Cork's finest producers & growers in a five course menu accompanied by wines carefully selected by our on
hand sommelier.

Dine under the historic arches of Church Lane surrounded by local art & atmospheric music in the heart of Midleton
town.

Saturday 7th September

Tickets available via eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/987288726157?
aff=oddtdtcreator

Limited availability €120pp includes welcome drink, five course meal, wine.

More about Church Lane:
Church Lane has Head Chef James Cullinane at the helm who
returned to his East Cork roots from Mayfair where he worked under
Richard Corrigan with previous work in Ardmore Cliff House and
served as Head Chef in Longueville House.
Awarded Best Munster Newcomer 2024 at the Irish Restaurant
Awards

New: Family Fun Zone! 🎈

Brand new for fEast 2024, we are delighted to introduce our dedicated Family Fun Zone.

This area will include fun for all ages, from food workshops, to giant games, kids yoga, face painting, balloon animals and more!

Located in the Fair Green, next to Super Valu, from 10am on Sunday 8th September.

Will you be bringing your crew along?

📣fEast Update📣

Huge thanks to all who have supported fEast Cork Food & Drink Festival since its beginnings in 2017.

Réidín, Mary and I gave a voluntary commitment to develop the festival as a community event over a 5 year period. With the help and support of Fergus McCarthy and a small team of varied and valuable volunteers, fEast Cork built steadily on the roots of the Midleton Food and Drink Festival to become a nationally renowned festival with an international audience.

fEast Cork has been about coming together as a community to showcase and celebrate the rich food and drink heritage in the East Cork area and supporting local food and drink businesses to work together to achieve this aim.

We are grateful for your support of the festival and the part you played in growing the festival over the past 7 years.

We are grateful to the Midleton & Area Chamber who have agreed to take on the guardianship of fEast Cork Food and Drink Festival from 2024 and ensure that it continues to be an annual event in our area.

They have committed to overseeing and supporting the development of a sub committee to ensure the continued, sustainable growth of the festival.

We have such great memories of our fEast journey and it will always have a special place in our hearts. We are excited about the next chapter for fEast and hope you will be part of it.

Thanks for your support over the years,

Kevin, Réidín & Mary

A flood-hit East Cork restaurant is cooking up a take-home Christmas feast Just heat and eat.

Thanks to the local businesses and producers who brought a taste of east cork to our fEast Street Market on Main Street Midleton last Sunday.

Looking to test your Trivia knowledge 😳

There's a Trivia night in Sage tonight

Food & Drinks on offer - Prizes & Drinks specials .

They have 2 tables remaining to be snapped up

Just follow the link below

BrainFood Interactive foodie trivia fun for fEAST 23

Do you have an hour or two to volunteer at the fEast Street Market this Sunday Sept. 10th?

fEast is a non profit community event which is made possible due to a volunteer effort.

🔗Sign up via linkinbio

What’s in it for you?
❤️Feel good factor
🌮Volunteer Refreshments

Sign up today & spread the word

East Corks Finest will be headlining this years fEAST23 .
Music hub will be located in .0_ Courtyard

Music fom@great local artists throughout the day with Food & .ie beer flowing from 12 -5

Join us for Climate Conscious Food panel discussion, a long-table lunch and a tour of Ballyvolane House and gardens on Friday, 8th September 2023 as part of fEast - East Cork Food and Drink Festival 2023! 🍇 🥬 🧀

We have a wonderful panel of guest speakers lined up, including Darina Allen , Ali Honour, Dr Eoin Lettice, and Brian McCarthy, with the discussion being hosted by Katie Ryan, the multi-award winning food Writer and Founder of Flavour.ie

For more details and tickets, click here: https://ballyvolanehouse.ie/news/2023-08-02-feast-east-cork-food-drink-festival-2023-climate-conscious-food-panel-discussion-long-table-lunch

Many of our 2023 events are now live on feastcork.com

Have a scroll, connect with friends, make a date, book your tickets & get fEasting.

More events to be added next week so check back soon.

Applications for
Producers, Growers, Stall holders, Restaurants, Coffee trucks , Food trucks , Butchers, Crafts people etc etc is now open for 23 .

We are opening the event for applications outside Cork this year to create a larger variety within the festival this year .

Sunday September 10th

Please email [email protected] for applications .

Good Morning ❤️

Applications for
Producers, Growers, Stall holders, Restaurants, Coffee trucks , Food trucks , Butchers, Crafts people etc etc is now open for 23 .

We are opening the event for applications outside Cork this year to create a larger variety within the festival this year .

Sunday September 10th

Please email [email protected] for applications .

We would really love to see a large food presence within the festival this year ❤️

Kate’s events were one of the highlights of last year’s festival and you have a chance to experience some of her workshops once again this weekend. Contact Kate for bookings and more info.

Only for your support our festival would not take place - much gratitude from the folk of East Cork & all involved 🙏🏼