In this Best Possible Taste interview, Margaret Leahy shares details about her new venture - Fable Tours.

Margaret is a Fáilte Ireland Tour Guide who enjoys meeting new people, eating great food, and having a laugh. Raised on an organic farm, she now lives on a smallholding growing vegetables in the company of numerous animals including her ever-faithful dog Willow. Meeting people, breaking bread with new friends and listening to old and young with their stories of growing, cooking and foraging is what has made Margaret's travels all over the world exciting. Margaret is passionate about providing immersive experiences in the beautiful West of Ireland. 

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30 January 2024 - Margaret Leahy, Fable Tours

In this Best Possible Taste interview, Sharon Noonan sits down with Santina Kennedy in the magnificent K Club to talk about St Brigid and the upcoming events to celebrate this special saint.

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20 January 2024 - Santina Kennedy

In this Best Possible Taste interview, we meet Samantha Forrest, founder of Fussy Food Plates.

"As a busy Mum of three children under five, I know how stressful mealtimes can be. We want our children to happy and healthy but often our wishes get in the way of children’s natural desire to constantly explore, be creative and simply play. So I set out to make our mealtimes - fun.

"At first, this meant more creativity with menu choices and food design to encourage our children to eat a more varied diet but I soon began to experiment with how and where we eating and that’s when I realised I was missing something…

"After 15 months of R&D, product testing and lots of mealtimes. I created The Fussy Food Plate!"

The Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest-running food and drink radio show and podcast and celebrated 10 years on air in 2023.

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6 February 2024 - Samantha Forrest, Fussy Food Plates

In this Best Possible Taste interview, Sharon Noonan talks to Margaret Dineen, founder of Blue Sky Food Consulting, about the Irish Food Trade Connect Forum which takes place on Thursday 21 March 2024 in the Kilashee Hotel, Naas, Co Kildare.

Visit www.blueskyfoodconsulting.ie for more information and to book your place.

6 February 2024 - Margaret Dineen, Blue Sky Consulting

In this Best Possible Taste interview, we meet Tricia England from the Mason's Apron in Viriginia, Co Cavan, Ireland who is celebrating 20 years in business.


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6 February 2024 - Tricia England, Mason's Apron

In this Best Possible Taste interview, Helen Bracken from Fox COvert Farm in Co Offaly, Ireland provides an insight into growing hemp for the health and wellness market.

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13 February 2024 - Helen Bracken, Fox Covert Farm

In this interview, Hilary McGrath from A Bit on the Side shares details about the latest additions to the product range.

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13 February 2024 - Hilary McGrath, A Bit on the Side

In this Best Possible Taste interview, Sharon Noonan talks to Cathy Curran about an event organised by the National Dairy Council at Airfield with multi-award-winning chef Anna Haugh.

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13 February 2023 - Cathy Curran, National Dairy Council

In 2023 Ireland’s Blue Book welcomed the Cliff at Lyons to its already impressive portfolio of properties throughout the country. In this interview joint managing director Tristan Jacob reveals what guests can expect to enjoy at the Kildare property.

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13 February 2024 - Tristan Jacob, Cliff at Lyons

In this BPT interview, Sharon Noonan meets Niamh Dooley, co-founder of Bia Sol, an Irish food start-up that aims to maximise nutrition and minimise waste. 

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20 February 2024 - Niamh Dooley, Bia Sol

In this interview, Sharon Noonan is joined by award-winning chef, Aishling Moore from Cork's Goldie Restaurant to find out about
her recent kitchen takeover in New York City at the Dead Rabbit Pub, to chat about her book “Whole Catch” which can be preordered from Blasta Books and to hear the excitement about retaining the Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand.


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20 February 2024 - Chef Aishling Moore, Goldie Restaurant

In this Best Possible Taste interview we meet Dr Kirstie McAdoo who is Head of Education and Research at Airfield Estate in Dublin, Ireland.

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27 February 2024 - Dr Kirstie McAdoo, Airfield Estate

In this interview Lily Ramirez-Foran, founder of Picado Mexican in Dublin, Ireland shares lots of exciting news including being a finalist in this year’s SFA’s Best in Small Business Awards.

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27 February 2024 - Lily Ramirez-Foran, Picado Mexican

In this interview, we hear about Nutty Delights thanks to Nik Mehta. 
Nutty Delights is Dublin’s first and only nuts and dried fruit retailer and is a finalist in the 2024 SFA Small Business Awards.

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5 March 2024 - Nik Mehta, Nutty Delights

In this Best Possible Taste interview, we find out about the support that the Small Firms' Association provides to its members, including food and drink businesses.
SFA Director David Broderick also talks about the upcoming SFA Small Business Awards.

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5 March 2024 - David Broderick, SFA

In this interview, Sharon Noonan catches up with chef Paula McIntyre who shares the culinary attributes of the North Antrim Coast, celebrates being the new chair of the Irish Food Writers' Guild and is heading to the US to film the latest series in her TV show, Hamely Kitchen.


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5 March 2024 - Chef Paula McIntyre

Recent episodes of Best Possible Taste have featured finalists in the 2024 Small Firms Association Small Business Awards.  In this episode the spotlight is on Rachel Byrne from Zingibeer

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12 March 2024 - Rachel Byrne, Zingibeer

Recent Best Possible Taste episodes have featured finalists in the 2024 Small Firms Association Small Business Awards and in this episode the spotlight is on Birgitta Hedin Curtin whose company, the multi-award-winning Burren Smokehouse in Lisdoonvarna, Co Clare celebrated being highly commended in the food and drink category,  However, that’s not all the Burren Smokehouse is celebrating, as this year marks 35 years in business!

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19 March 2024 - Birgitta Hedin Curtin, Burren Smokehouse

In this Best Possible Taste interview we return to  Airfield Estate, an urban farm and organic garden in South Dublin to meet CEO Claire McEvilly to find out more about her vision for Airfield.

Airfield Estate is a leading Dublin tourist attraction and Dublin’s sustainable food hub - a place where people can reconnect with where their food comes from.  Claire is a public health nutritionist by background. Before joining Airfield, she worked in communications roles in the UK and Ireland for various organisations including the British Nutrition Foundation, the University of Cambridge, UCD and global food multinational Danone. She is a former member of the Safefood Advisory Board – one of the all-island bodies, Strategic Advisor to BLab Ireland and Chair of the Advisory Board All Ireland Science Media Centre.

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19 March 2024 - Claire Mac Evilly, Airfield Estate

This Best Possible Taste episode is a celebration of Taste Causeway an All-Ireland Foodie Destination Award Winner and an accredited Slow Food Destination in Northern Ireland.

The first guest is Mark Rodgers who is a story teller and guide.
We hear from Simon Hogg from Dunluce Distillery.
We talk to artisan producer Claire O'Kane from Mussenden Sea Salt and who also curates unique dining experience in Mussenden Temple.
Zilda from the Cultured Bakehouse gives an insight into her business and the final guest is Charlotte Dixon, owner of the very unique Elephant Rock Hotel in Portrush.

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26 March 2024 - Taste Causeway Full Show

This interview with Mark Rodgers is an extract from a Best Possible Taste programme that is a celebration of Taste Causeway an All-Ireland Foodie Destination Award Winner and an accredited Slow Food Destination in Northern Ireland.

"Mark is a third-generation storyteller ( a seanchai ). His first-hand, free-flowing stories and his exclusive access to influential people and places will forever root you to this land, shaping memories so strong you will swear you were here centuries before. “

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26 March 2024 - Mark Rodgers (Taste Causeway Show Guest)

This interview with Charlotte Dixon is an extract from a Best Possible Taste programme that is a celebration of Taste Causeway, an All-Ireland Foodie Destination Award Winner and an accredited Slow Food Destination in Northern Ireland.

Charlotte talks about her journey from studying for a Chemistry Ph.D. to opening the Elephant Rock — an 18-bedroom boutique hotel perched on a rocky headland in the coastal town of Portrush. A small hotel with a big personality - the guestrooms are an elegant nod to a bygone era that beautifully complements the original Victorian Terrace building. The hotel’s restaurant has a focus on fresh, local produce of the highest quality and welcomes overnight guests and day-trippers alike. Keep an eye out for some exciting upcoming food and drink events by following their social media.

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26 March 2024 - Charlotte Dixon (Taste Causeway Show Guest)

This interview with Claire O'Kane is an extract from a Best Possible Taste programme that is a celebration of Taste Causeway, an All-Ireland Foodie Destination Award Winner and an accredited Slow Food Destination in Northern Ireland.


Mussenden Sea Salt is hand-crafted on the rugged Causeway Coast in Northern Ireland. 
 
As Northern Ireland's only sea salt producer, they pride themselves on producing sea salt with Zero Impact on the sea. The focus is on not overly producing sea salt, meaning that they believe that sea salt should be as nature intended, naturally moist.  Not only are they Northern Ireland's only sea salt producer, they also host exclusive dining and wellness experiences in iconic landmarks such as Mussenden Temple in Northern Ireland, and locations throughout Ireland.
 
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26 March 2024 - Claire O'Kane (Taste Causeway Show Guest)

In this Best Possible Taste interview we meet Hanna Bäckmo, an award-winning beekeeper, entrepreneur, hobby gardener and internationally published writer. Originally from a small island in Sweden, she now lives in East Cork with her son, two dogs, a flock of rescue chickens and lots of bees. Hanna is the founder of Hanna’s Bees, producing a unique range of natural and sustainable honey, propolis, and beeswax products sold in Ireland’s leading Gift & Artisan food stores and select US outlets. With 70 colonies of Native Irish honeybees, she is a passionate bee-advocate and educator and is an Ambassador for the Native Irish Honeybee.

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2 April 2024 - Hannas Backmö, Hanna's Bees

In this Best Possible Taste interview, we meet Norma Kelly, an award-winning chocolatier who has bucked the trend and expanded Praline - her flourishing café business in her hometown of Mitchelstown, Co. Cork - with the opening of a striking new twenty-seater confectionery concept.

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2 April 2024 - Norma Kelly, Praline Pastry & Chocolate Shop

In this Best Possible Taste we meet chef Keith Boyle who has been appointed executive chef of the multi-award-winning estate Mountain View in Kilkenny.

Previously crowned best chef in Leinster and Munster at the Irish Restaurant Awards, Keith talks about his culinary journey to date and shares details about events including hosting a much-anticipated series of pop up dining events across the year with the first announced as ‘Dinner with the MasterChefs’ on Saturday May 4th as part of the inaugural Foodie Fest. 

Keith also talks about the estate’s kitchen garden, zero waste street food truck named ‘LOADED’ and Sunday Market.

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9 April 2024 - Chef Keith Boyle

In this Best Possible Taste, Eunice Power shares details about the 2024 Waterford Festival of Food that takes place from Friday 19 April - Sunday 21 April.
The festival is one of Ireland’s longest running food and community festivals and has an extensive programme of events.
Visit www.waterfordfoodfestival.com for more details.

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9 April 2024 - Eunice Power

In this BPT interview chef Simon Regan talks about the 2024 National Culinary Skills Competition that took place in Killarney in Co Kerry.

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16 April 2024 - Simon Regan

In this Best Possible Taste, we meet to Jenny Flynn, Executive Chef at Faithlegg, Co Waterford.

Jenny has built long-lasting relationships with local producers and artisan suppliers in Ireland creating bespoke seasonal menus that capture a taste of Waterford across Faithlegg’s restaurant and bars – the 2AA Rosette Roseville Rooms restaurant, the Alyward Lounge, Bar 1783 and the Red Cedar Lounge.
 
Since joining Faithlegg over fifteen years ago, Jenny has introduced her range of products including dressings, oils and jams with her Seville Orange & Muldoon Whisky Marmalade awarded bronze at the 2021 Blas na hÉireann awards.
  
A Wexford native, Jenny grew up in the countryside surrounded by an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables, spending hours working alongside her grandmother in the kitchen preparing homemade jams and breads. From a very early age, Jenny developed an innate appreciation for eating good food which has played a central role to her approach to cooking throughout her career to date.  
 
The food ethos at Faithlegg is very simple — it’s all about respect. Faithlegg has a unique collection of restaurants, each one with a different food offering but all with a sense of old world charm that is fresh and polished. By respecting the heritage of the building and its story and setting, Faithlegg stays contemporary with a timeless quality.

Executive Chef Jenny Flynn glows when she speaks about her suppliers — the farmers, growers, fishermen and bakers who she respects so much, and who take such time and care in doing what they do so well. It is her mission to share that passion with her teams and the guests at Faithlegg, so the cycle of respect continues. Her delicious menus showcase all that is best and finest from many named local and artisan producers from Waterford, from her home county of Wexford, the whole of the South East and the island of Ireland.
 
“I’m all about supporting local food,” says Jenny Flynn, “not just because it’s local, but because it’s excellent. We source and buy our seasonal ingredients and look to maximise their potential, treating them with the respect, attention and care they deserve, developing the dishes served daily to our guests inspired me to expand our produce into retail, so our guests can now bring a taste of Faithlegg home to their table. I believe in food and the joy it brings to everyone, in good times and in bad, it helps us celebrate and binds us together, and at Faithlegg we love what we do. We hope our guests think that love shows”.

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16 April 2024 - Chef Jenny Flynn

Mary-Claire O' Sullivan trained as a professional chef before embarking on a career working in the fashion industry.
In more recent times she studied nutrition and health coaching and in this Best Possible Taste interview she shares her journey from a career in food to one in fashion before returning to food again.

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23 April 2024 - Mary-Claire O'Sullivan

In this Best Possible Taste interview we meet Joe Gorman from Garryhinch Wood Exotic Mushrooms.
Joe has been involved in the mushroom-growing business for 30 years supplying the retail sector, food services sector and farmers markets all across Ireland.  Based on the banks of the river Barrow on the borders of counties Laois and Offaly today they grow a wide range of wild exotic organic mushrooms which are cultivated on wooden blocks made from trees sourced from sustainable managed forests.  

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23 April 2024 - Joe Gorman, Garryhinch Wood Exotic Mushrooms

In this Best Possible Interview, Peter Monaghan, founder of Inis Escargot shares his story about combining suckler farming with snail farming.

The suckler farm produces top-quality weanlings and the snail farm rears, fattens, finishes and exports Inis Escargot snails directly from the farm.

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30 April 2024 - Peter Monaghan, Inis Escargot

In this Best Possible Taste interview, we meet Orla McAndrew.

Orla is a multi award winning chef and entrepreneur.
She is a mum of three young girls and has created a successful event catering business in the past number of years, having been the eternal student and a stay at home mum for many years before taking that leap of faith.

Heart led, she works off the cuff and has a proven track record for finding creative ways to remain relevant and at the front of people's minds.

She is a regular on The RTE Today Show, is about to launch a cookbook and has recently launched Zero Waste Wedding Catering to the Irish market.

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30 April 2024 - Orla McAndrew

Food and Drink Radio Show & Podcast with Sharon Noonan.
Celebrating 10 years in 2023!

Some people like to blog, Sharon Noonan likes to interview!  In 2013 her food and drink show, Best Possible Taste, premiered on West Limerick 102FM and continues to air every Tuesday night from 8pm - 9pm with the weekly repeat at 9am on Wednesday mornings.  A podcast makes the shows accessible to a wide and worldwide audience.  Podcasts feature interviews with old and new faces in the food and drink world.  From restaurant reviews to discussing current affairs issues affecting the hospitality industry to hearing a famous family recipe to enjoying an award winning artisan product, the topics covered are diverse and delectable.  Happy listening and Bon Appetit!

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