Transition Town Kinsale 50 Mile Meal Award
at the Mad Hatter’s Taste of Kinsale
2010 WINNERS
Pearse O’Sullivan of Toddies; winners most exquisite meal and David O’Sullivan of Fishy Fishy Café winners of TTK Special Commendation with Becca Stevenson of Kinsale Green Growers
Hugo Arnold tasting Fishy Fishys David O’Sullivan entry which won Special Commendation
2009 WINNERS
Voted by Dianne Curtin The most exquisite 50 Mile Meal : Fishy Fishy – Martin Shanahan,Pickled herring (Christy Hurley) with potato salad (Fred Palmer, Ballygarvan)
There was a wonderful array of ’50 mile Meals’ at the Mad Hatter’s Taste of Kinsale on Saturday 9th October: a big ‘Thank you’ to Hugo Arnold who had the difficult but enjoyable job of adjudicating them.
Congratulations to Pearse O’Sullivan of Toddies @ the Bulman who prepared the ‘Most Exquisite’ 50 Mile Meal: butternut squash & Oysterhaven mussels and pork with jerk seasoning & tomatillo salsa.
And to David O’Sullivan of Fishy Fishy who received the Transition Town Kinsale Special Commendation for their feast from the sea which was ‘local, wild and free’: periwinkles, samphire and beetroot from the garden!
The Transition Town Kinsale ‘50 Mile Meal’ Award is given to dishes made from produce which has been sourced within 50 miles of Kinsale
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The Transition Town Kinsale ‘50 Mile Meal’ Award was launched by Derek Davis at the 2007 Gourmet Food Festival and has featured each year since. The award is given to any dish prepared with ingredients produced within a 50 mile radius of the town. Two prizes are awarded at ‘The Mad Hatters Taste of Kinsale':- the most exquisite 50 Mile Meal and the TTK Special Commendation. This award highlights the issue of food miles and the importance of local food production. Transition Town Kinsale now hopes to introduce the ‘50 Mile Meal Award’ onto the Menus of Restaurants in Town and a 50 Mile Award in local shops.
Transition Town Kinsale (TTK) has achieved a reputation abroad as being the world's first Transition Town in what is rapidly becoming a movement with hundreds of villages, towns and cities in Ireland, the UK and around the globe preparing to follow the same path in the transition towards local sustainability.
Over the past five years, because of a committed group of social entrepreneurs, and the support of the Town Council and Cork County Council, TTK has facilitated projects in food, energy, transport and education. We have worked with other community and business groups including The Good Food Circle; The Chamber of Tourism; Tidy Towns; Kinsale Arts Week; local National Schools; the Community School; Kinsale Further Education College; Foróige; Kinsale Active Retirement Association; The Healthy Options Group and The Carmelite Friary.
TTK’s Food Forum: Kinsale’s Edible Garden’s Network runs our Autumn Food Festival and a Sow & Grow day in spring. Our Community Garden Awards were launched in 2009 and we have established small orchards on three housing developments in Kinsale. We are also working with Sáile to develop a Community Orchard and Garden on their site. We helped facilitate the setting up of allotments with a local farmer and two TTK committee members have set up a Community Supported Agriculture Scheme (Vegetable Box) and two further CSA schemes were set up with local farmers to grow oats and potatoes.
The Education for Sustainability’s team of facilitators which is now teaching in 6 schools locally has a program which includes teaching about food production in gardens that the kids have helped to create. TTK also developed a year-long program on building sustainable communities for the Transition Year students at Kinsale Community School. It included films, games, discussion and practical activities, including a school garden.
50 Mile Meal Awards – prize winners 2007-2009
50 Mile Meal Award: 10th October 2009 at the Mad Hatters Taste of Kinsale
Voted by Dianne Curtin
The most exquisite 50 Mile Meal : Fishy Fishy – Martin Shanahan
Pickled herring (Christy Hurley) with potato salad (Fred Palmer, Ballygarvan)
Transition Town special Commendation: Max’s – Olivier and Anne Marie Queva
For their selection of local dishes
Special Mention: Restaurant d’Antibes at the White House – chef Martin El-Sahen – for their pumpkin soup – pumpkin from Michael Frawley’s garden.
50 Mile Meal Award :11th October 2008 at the Mad Hatters Taste of Kinsale
Voted by Sandra Nowlan, MSc - Food and Travel Writer visiting from Nova Scotia
The most exquisite 50 mile Meal: Toddies Restaurant - Pearse O’Sullivan
Ummera smoked eel beetroot and watercress salad
Other dishes included: Pumpkin and mussel soup; Local shrimp cocktail and Mackerel and potato salad
Transition Town special Commendation: Spinnaker - Peter Tiernan
For selection of dishes – Tongue - O’Crualaoi Butchers, Ballincollig; Oxtail spring roll - O’Crualaoi Butchers, Ballincollig: Tripe & drisheen – English market; Salmon – O’Connell
Special Mention to :Fishy Fishy café – chef Jonathon Carter – for Back to the Future on a Herring
Restaurant d’Antibes at the White House – chef Martin El-Sahen – for seafood chowder – produce – Matt O’Connell seafood, Gubeen Cheese and vegetable and herbs form Michael Frawley’s garden.
50 Mile Meal Award: October 2007 at the Mad Hatters Taste of Kinsale
Voted by the guests at The Mad Hatters Tea Party
The most exquisite 50 mile Meal: Jim Edwards Restaurant
The produce used in this dish was provided by
Waterfall Farms (Declan Martin) / Haven ShellFish (Jamie Dwyer)
Runner up: White Lady Restaurant,With meat provided by O’Crualaoi Butchers, Ballincollig
Transition Town special merit award: The delicious Pumpkin Pie prepared by Martin El-Sahen of The White House - pumpkin grown in Kinsale.
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