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A VARIETY of mouth-watering events have been unveiled for the 2022 Burren Slow Food Festival this month. Slow Food Clare’s eclectic programme for this year’s event which takes place over the weekend of Friday, May 20 to Sunday May 22 will comprise tastings, talks, markets, a banquet and more besides. However, if you haven’t already got a ticket for Friday’s festival-opening seafood supper on Inis Oirr, you’ll have to wait for next year as it is sold out. On Saturday, May 21, the Pavilion in Lisdoonvarna will host the annual farmers’ market and showcase, the 2022 theme of which is dedicated to raising awareness about the concept of “GEOfood”. GEOfood is an international brand for food produced in UNESCO Global Geoparks (www.geofood.no). Sara Gentilini, inventor of the GEOfood initiative and project manager at MAGMA UNESCO Global Geopark in Norway, will join Deirdre O’Shea, Head of Tourism Clare County Council and Birgitta Hedin-Curtin, Slow Food Clare and the Burren Smokehouse, by video link …

A CELEBRATION of the rich food culture of the fertile rock of North Clare’s limestone landscape will be the focus of this year’s Burren Slow food Festival. The virtual event which begins this Thursday, April 29, will see producers and chefs come together in a series of online pairings with events streamed online up to May 5 at 7pm and hosted by Tina O’Dwyer of The Tourism Space. Over the course of the festival, viewers will have the opportunity to see the region’s spectacular landscapes, as the events will be hosted by different members of the Burren Ecotourism network in their own home venue. Festival regular John McKenna of McKenna Guides, will set the scene with a short introduction, which will be followed by lively discussions between producers and chefs, along with food tastings. Each event will be wrapped up with traditional Irish music performed by some of the Burren’s finest local musicians. Geologist Eamon Doyle from the Burren and …