West Cork Hotel Celtic Cook Off Goes Nationwide
Last night, Wednesday 5th September at 7pm, the Celtic Cook Off featured as part of the popular RTE ONE programme Nationwide. Taking the top spot and the first item up to be shown on the programme, which highlighted the important part that food has in attracting visitors to our shores, it looked back at the success of last year’s Celtic Cook Off competition, as it followed the 6 Celtic region chefs before and during the inaugural event.
Prior to the competition, which took place as part of A Taste of West Cork, the 6 Celtic Chef’s from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and Isle of Man visited a farm on West Cork to see where some of their produce for the competition would come from, discussed the need to use locally source food to produce award winning cookery with West Cork’s Giana Ferguson from Gubbeen and Sally Barnes from Woodcock Smokery, as well as visiting the schools cookery competition to be utterly impressed by what West Cork's youth could produce in 1 hour 30 minutes with local produce.
On the night of the event and down to business, host John McKenna from the Bridgestone guides oversaw the event that took place here at the West Cork Hotel, as 2 groups of 3 Celtic Chefs cooked-off in competition style in front of a sell out audience. However as with all competitions there could only be winner and the top Celtic Chef for 2011 was Roy Brett from Scotland with his dish of roasted Shellfish using sun burnt al from Cork and as many of the produce from the best coast of Cork as he could.
Firmly becoming one of the must do things to do in west Cork, if you missed Nationwide and want to tantalise your taste buds ahead of this year’s Celtic Cook Off on Wednesday 12th September catch up on the RTE Player: http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2012/0905/nationwide.html#&calendar=true&page=1 and the Celtic Cook off Coverage is the first 6 minutes and 35 seconds of the broadcast.
On the night of the event and down to business, host John McKenna from the Bridgestone guides oversaw the event that took place here at the West Cork Hotel, as 2 groups of 3 Celtic Chefs cooked-off in competition style in front of a sell out audience. However as with all competitions there could only be winner and the top Celtic Chef for 2011 was Roy Brett from Scotland with his dish of roasted Shellfish using sun burnt al from Cork and as many of the produce from the best coast of Cork as he could.
Firmly becoming one of the must do things to do in west Cork, if you missed Nationwide and want to tantalise your taste buds ahead of this year’s Celtic Cook Off on Wednesday 12th September catch up on the RTE Player: http://www.rte.ie/news/av/2012/0905/nationwide.html#&calendar=true&page=1 and the Celtic Cook off Coverage is the first 6 minutes and 35 seconds of the broadcast.