News, Stories and Comments from a Smoker

Great June weather! Reminds me of the Slow Food Sustainable day we had here at Inchybridge last July!

Our wireless broadband was out this morning, but back again now; I think the rain got into the  inter-connectors yesterday.

Anyway, The Taste of Cork starts this evening, and Ummera will be there at both sessions tomorrow on the Good Food Ireland stand, Stand No. 27, along with Mossfield Cheese, Silver Hill Ducks, Jack McCarthy, James Whelan, Gee’s Jams, Declan Ryan’s Arbutus breads, the Apple Farm, The Connemara Smokehouse and Kelly’s Resort Hotel.

We are taking part in this weekend’s Taste of Cork at the Cork City Gaol in conjunction with Good Food Ireland.

Ummera will be there on the Saturday and I look forward to seeing you.

Come and say hello and we might have a competition for the best review on any of our products on LouderVoice!

Details later this week!

Dashing out the door to do a couple of days In-Store tasting at Cork Airport in the Duty Free Shop - so if passing through on the way to the sun (or rain!) today or tomorrow, come and say hello!

We will also have some cards from LouderVoice which will show you how to send instant reviews by SMS of anything you want! See the left hand side bar of this page for some examples…..

In February RTE’s Nationwide included a piece on Ummera, and I have been thinking about embedding it onto our website, but with no joy.

However, this morning whilst scanning through my Google Reader feeds for interesting bits, Damian Mulley gave me the solution with a  link to Jazz Biscuit who has created some code to embed RTE’s Realplayer clips.

So now, thanks to the Irish blogosphere, I have the solution and the clip can be viewed directly from www.ummera.com

As part of The Butler’s Pantry Artisan Week in Dublin, I will be tasting some of our smoked products at:

Rathgar on Wednesday afternoon from 3.00pm to 7.00pm,

Greystones on Thursday morning from 11.00am to 2.00pm,

Mount Merrion Avenue, Blackrock, Thursday afternoon from 3.30pm to 7.00pm.

Come and say hello!

Full details of locations at http://www.thebutlerspantry.ie/Contact_Us.aspx

The Sunday World Magazine yesterday had some great coverage of Clodagh McKenna and the launch of her second series of Fresh from the Farmers Markets which is being screened on RTE 1 at 7.30pm on Wednesdays.

Delighted to see that Clodagh used our Smoked Chicken in one of her two Main Courses in her “Ummera Smoked Chicken Paella”; the original version, which doesn’t include mussels or prawns for those with shellfish allergies, can be found on our Smoked Chicken page .

If you are planning to go the Real Food Festival in Earls Court, London this week, and you are booking the tickets online, then save yourself some money by clicking here and enter the Code RFP258.

This will reduce the Door price from £18.00 to £12.50!

And if you do get there on either the Thursday or Friday, you will find us at Stand P76.

We are taking part in the Real Food Festival at Earls Court, London at the end of next week - or rather from Thursday April 24th through to Sunday. The first day is a Trade Only day and I have some complementary entrance tickets available; so if you are going to be in the Big Smoke, and would like to go, do let me know.

Full details can be found at www.realfoodfestival.co.uk

By the way Ummera will be on Stand P76, but I am afraid that we will be there only on the Thursday and Friday.

Come to Hosfords Garden Centre, on the Bandon Clonakilty Road, from 12 Noon to 5.30pm this Sunday, April 6th fora Slow Food For Kids Day.

Denis Cotter of the renowned Cafe Paradiso in Cork will be opening the day at 2.pm.

There will be a Farmer’s Market, talks on worms and vermicomposting, puppet shows, lessons on strawberry growing by Denise Bushby, music and of course John Hosford and his Garden Centre will be there for all to see.

Raffle for hampers will be raising funds for Slow Food Ireland’s Terra Madre in September - details at www.terramadreireland.com

Come along and enjoy!