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Your Evening Longread: A month of eating only Irish food
We bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.
And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.
We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
Could you do a month of eating only Irish food – and do you even know what that looks like? Ellie O’Byrne took the challenge, and the results are fascinating to read about.
(Tripe & Drisheen, approx 11 mins reading time)
This does not mean eating things labelled as Irish, because after all, this is no guarantee of provenance: freshly squeezed orange juice can pick up a Blas na hÉireann award. There’s sushi labelled as Irish. More Irish chocolate than you can shake a diabetes test stick at. That’s because there’s a law that permits you to label a food as Irish, or even as “Made in Cork,” as long as it has gone through a “substantially transformative process” here. The problem with all of this labelling of imports is that it is currently giving us a misleading idea of where we stand with actual food security.
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