Food Festival in Kinsale

The last week has been fairly busy culminating in taking part in the Kinsale Clipper Food Festival on Sunday, July 3rd. When the sun broke through the fog and drizzle, thousands of people descended on Kinsale for the food fair at The Long Quay and everybody was spoilt for choice. From cheese makers, cupcake vendors, seafood stalls (including Anthony Creswell of Ummera, who took our photo above!) and icecream carts, it turned out to be some day.
Ursula and myself claimed our corner at the Fuchsia Pavillion which somewhat guarded our new chocolate biscuits from the sun but when temperatures hit the early 20's in the afternoon, we were taking whatever measures imagionary to keep them cool while on display. We sold mostly all by the end of the day and following eight gruelling hours trading, we trapsed home gratefully! The new chocolate biscuit flavours we experimented with were Chocolate Orange, Kirsch Cherry, Hazelnut Crunch, Toasted Almond and Raspberry Coconut. At first the Hazelnut Crunch proved most popular but with a sweeping run, the Chocolate Orange and Kirsch Cherry overtook and probably shared the No.1 slot at day's end.

Another great feature of taking part in these fairs is the meeting up with fellow food producers from the area and we shared the pavillion with Jeffa Gill of Durras Cheese, Anthony Creswell with his delicious smoked salmon and Iain Flynn of Flynns Kitchen, Riverstick who came with jars of preserves and chutneys which were well subscribed. All in all a great day.