Gold! Gold! Gold!

We are really thrilled to report that we have been honoured with a Gold Award in this year’s Great Taste Awards in the UK for our Ummera Smoked Silver Hill Duck Breast.

And not just a Gold Award, but a Three Star Gold Award - can’t get much better than that!

Read all about it at ............more

As the great people at Good Food Ireland said on Twitter this morning:

Forget the geese with golden eggs, the Silver Hill Ducks are laying Golden Great Taste Awards!

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Oxford Symposium on Food & Cooking

Last weekend in St. Catherine's College, Oxford there was a gathering of many of the movers and shakers in the food writing world where they listened to academic disertations on diverse topics relating to the world of "Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods".

Click here to read the full programme!

For instance: 

• Rotten vegetable stalks, stinking beancurd and other Shaoxing delicacies by Fuchsia Dunlop
• Shad Planking: The Strangely American Story of a Smoked Fish by Mark McWilliams
• A Preserve Gone Bad: Surströmming and Gravlax: The good and bad ways of preserving fish by Renée Valeri

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Cost of Compliance

Our blog post, Cost of Compliance, attracted some good and constructive comments.

We also followed it up with the news that Euro-toques Ireland are taking up the cudgels on behalf of the small food producers. If you haven't read it, details are on our post entitled "Euro-toques Ireland offer of help"

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