14-8-2014: repro free photo: A FEAST OF CULINARY ATHLETICS TO KICK OF IRELAND’S FOODIEST FESTIVAL
Student chef, Liadan Sheehy in front with chefs and local producers from Dingle pictured at the launch od the Dingle Food Festival which will take palce from October 3rd-5th. Included in photo are from left, Jerry Kennedy, butcher, Jim Mccarthy, restauranteur, Niall O'Conchuir, chef, and vegatable grower Derek O'Connor. At back, Clevlio Romirea, fisherman, chefs Mark Murphy, Jean marie Vaireaux, Martin Bealin, Jill Burton, Milkman Timmy Brick and and bee keeper, Thomas Kavanagh.

press release:
Having been voted the No.1 Foodiest Town in Ireland earlier this year, Dingle will kick off its hugely popular Dingle Peninsula Food Festival, 3- 5 October, with a feast of culinary athletics, leaving visitors in no doubt as to why the town won this much coveted title.

The inaugural Dingle Culinary Pentathlon, which will take place on the first day of the Festival, will see students from professional culinary schools throughout the country test their athletic and cookery skills to the limit. To win, students will have to race through the town, on foot and by bike, picking up a blind basket of ingredients en route. They will then have to create a 2 course lunch in a heated cook off that will be judged by peers and top professionals alike.

To celebrate the festival’s 8th anniversary, The Taste Trail, one of the most popular ingredients of the weekend, will now take in 80 establishments around the town; Derry Clarke, who has created the ultimate Dingle Pie, will be raising funds for charity on the Trail at Liam O’Neill’s art gallery, while milliner, Kathleen McAuliffe will be serving up Mad Hatter cocktails with Dingle Gin and jazz. Free demos and workshops include a mix of local and national chefs such as Martin Bealin of Dingle’s Global Village, which won Best Emerging Irish Cuisine at the RAI awards and Nevin McGuire, voted the Best Chef in Ireland, who will mak