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Fresh from the shores of Lough Derg (I've been in Dromineer for the weekend), it's time for another helping of Food In 5 Minutes, the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories from the Irish food world and beyond, plucked from the past week, and served up in five minutes or less, ish.You know the drill. There's also a newsletter version that includes extra long reads for your Sunday, recipes to try for the week ahead that today includes some easy-bake bread takes, a podcast pick and more. Grab the latest edition here on Substack or sign up anywhere you see the subscription boxes on the blog to get a fresh copy in your inbox every Sunday morning.Chef Dylan McGrath shuts Dublin restaurants Brasserie Sixty6 and Rustic StoneDylan McGrath closes two of his most famous restaurantsDylan McGrath closes two Dublin restaurants as business is 'simply not sustainable'COVID lockdown: Insurers have now paid pubs and restaurants more than €250m€1 million awarded to develop five Gala Dinner Venues€1 million awarded to develop five Gala Dinner Venues to attract international Business EventsFSAI official releasePopular Dublin pub Hartigan’s among 12 food businesses issued with closure orders last monthVisit irishfoodawards.comIrish Food Awards: 8 Kilkenny businesses named finalists for this year’s Blas na hÉireann awards in Dingle

For Sunday 11 August 2024, this is Food In 5 Minutes.Grab the newsletter version now by signing up for free at kenonfood.substack.com and get stories, bonus reading, recipes, a podcast pick and more in your inbox every Sunday morning.LINKS THIS EPISODE577 Irish Food-Led Businesses Have Closed Since VAT Rise Last September Over 570 restaurants ‘forced to close’ since September VAT hike.Waterford Harvest Festival – What’s OnBelfast Restaurant Week (official website)Belfast Restaurant Week to return this October with a fresh flavour to support city centre’s hospitality sceneEU ice cream production fell by 1.4% in 2023Ireland is the fifth-largest exporter of ice cream in the EUWalkers teams up with Heinz to launch three new crisp flavours — and one is controversial

It's the August bank holiday weekend and today's edition of the podcast looks atThree new eateries opening in Kilkenny in recent weeks (with one about to open)Calls for the restoration of the 9% VAT rate for hospitality heading to EuropeThe expansion of the Hot School Meals programmeALDI ditching their blue bottle caps as their sustainability push continuesWeird TikTok food trendsLinks to checkKelly calls for reinstatement of 9% VAT rate for hospitalityMinister Humphreys announces 168 additional Primary Schools approved for Hot School MealsFurther 168 primary schools to get hot meals from SeptemberAldi Ireland makes huge change to popular product across all 161 Irish stores (Irish Mirror)This week's edition of The Week In Food

For Sunday 28 July 2024, this is Food In 5 Minutes, the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories from around the Irish food scene and beyond, over the past week, served up in five minutes or less, ish.It’s been another busy week in the world of food, with plenty to chew on from home and abroad. At time of release I'm currently in Galway seeking out some new food and drink spots to write home about.Before we get into this week’s stories, if you’d like more, head over to the blog now – that’s kenonfood.com – or visit kenonfood.substack.com and take a few membership to my newsletter The Week In Food, dropping every Sunday morning online and in your inbox.Links this week...Wexford Food FamilyCost of ice cream on the rise (Live 95)UK ice-cream and lolly prices up by more than 30%, analysis showsTruck driver jobs see 83% increase in demand - Indeed (RTÉ)Irish food businesses in 'survival mode' as industry profit margins fall below 1%, warns reportSupermac’s chief wants VAT reprieve for food businessesRestaurants Association Of Ireland Warns That Sector Is In ‘Survival Mode’National Organic Awards 2024National Organic Awards open for entries

For Sunday July 21st 2024, this is Food In 5 Minutes, the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories from the past week, from the Irish food scene and beyond, all served up in five minutes or less, ish.Take a listen to this week's stories.Resources this episodeTaste of Kildare official websiteTaste of Kildare ticket detailsEdible Dublin Food StrategyAdvice for consumers regarding consumption of slush ice drinksNearly half of Dublin food pubs report business decline due to VAT increase - LVA48% of Dublin pubs who serve food say VAT increase has lead to drop in businessLVA call for VAT cut againSugar tax on beverages – activism or sensible measure? (original article, translated from German)Germany mulls sugar tax: What are the benefits?Germany's potential billions in savings and health gains with sugar-sweetened beverage taxSugar tax in Germany could save up to 16 billion euros (Study)Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax (SSDT) (Revenue.ie)As always, if you would like more content, consider a free subscription to my newsletter, The Week In Food, available here.

For Sunday July 14th 2028 this is Food In 5 Minutes, the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories from the Irish food scene and beyond, plucked from the past week and served up in five minutes or less, ish.Supporting links for this week's stories can be found below.Carlow TourismCarlow Garden FestivalSafefood: Meat thermometer use grows 20%Coffee prices to keep rising for at least another yearCoffee prices will rise even higher (The Guardian)Waterford Harvest Festival - What's OnWaterford Harvest Festival - Trader applications now openUS food giant Wendy's to launch in Ireland early next year (Newstalk)US fast food chain Wendy's to open in Ireland (Irish Times)You can also get more detail on these stories, additional long reads for your weekend, recipes to try for the week ahead and podcast to keep your ears company when you sign up to my free newsletter, The Week In Food, via kenonfood.substack.com.

For Sunday 7 July 2024, it's time for another helping of Food In 5 Minutes with five stories from the past week drawn from the Irish food scene and beyond.Read up on the stories in full with the links below.You can also sign up to The Week In Food newsletter for free, available via kenonfood.substack.com.90 million drinks containers returned in June as Ireland averages Three million bottles and cans per dayAs schools close for summer, many children benefiting from Hot School Meals Scheme risk missing out on their only hot meal of the dayCall for scheme to tackle 'holiday hunger' in childrenClimate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banksNon-alcohol beer continues to grow in popularity according to new report from Drinks Ireland|BeerNon-alcohol beer continues to grow in popularity – Drinks IrelandA New Two Star Restaurant in The MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2024The Guild entry in Michelin GuideDubai restaurant that includes a Kilkenny man among its Head Chefs secures Michelin special award

On a weekend that has seen Taylor Swift take over Dublin’s Aviva Stadium for three nights, another outing for the family fun-packed Kaleidoscope Festival in Wicklow, Flavours of Fingal in Dublin and more. Galway beating Dublin in the All-Ireland football quarter-finals and more, this is Food In 5 Minutes for Sunday 30 June.Links for this week's stories...Ireland’s food waste equivalent to over one million meals per day, new figures showEPA: 53,000t of food waste generated at production stageTayto recalls crisps after ‘golf ball contamination’FSAI Tayto recall noticeFSAI Spuddy’s recall noticeSage announces restaurant closure onlineSage Restaurant in Midleton to close after 16 years in businessKevin Aherne on his next plan after Midleton's Sage Restaurant closes R&D leads to major Marks & Spencer deal for Fermoy businessDairy Concepts wins new contract with Marks & SpencerCork’s Dairy Concepts secures international contract with M&SHere’s Why McDonald’s Scrapped Its Plant-Based Burger in AmericaMcDonald's says verdict is in: US customers do not like McPlant burgersGet bonus stories, recipes and a podcast pick for this week in the latest edition of The Week In Food, available here for free.

With temperatures for the week ahead set to tip the early-to-mid 20s, it's Sunday all over again, which means another helping of Food In 5 Minutes.This week shines a light on...SafeFood's Talk About Food reportFood Vision 2030 - Annual report 2023Food Vision 2023 - Annual report 2022Food Vision 2023 breakdownOpportunity to acquire a portfolio of KFC restaurants in IrelandCrunch time looms for smokey bacon crisps as EU bans potential cancerous flavouringEFSA: Smoke flavouringsMember States endorse withdrawal of smoke flavourings from EU marketLab-grown burgers and cricket salads 'could be meal staples' by 2054More talk about lab-grown burgers and cricket saladsGet more to read and listen by grabbing a free subscription to The Week In Food, available now via Substack.