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Midleton Food & Drink Festival is bringing together first-class producers & suppliers of excellent food and drink products to showcase and celebrate the best of Irish produce from South & East Cork. The Festival will present an open air food market with over thirty stalls, wine talk & tasting, a waiters’ race, food composting, local crafts, exhibitions of photography and paintings, as well as street music, puppet show, story-telling and entertainment for all the family. Some of the new features to the festival include the screening of the Foodie Film “Chocolat” on Friday the 12^th and we are also hosting  two exciting cookery demonstrations on Saturday the 13^th in our demonstration marquee: 

 ‘Green Saffron’s Introduction to Spices’, Arun Kapil

 ‘Seasonal Food from the Local Farmers Market’ Darina Allen

Tickets for the film and cookery demonstrations are available for sale at Finin’s Restaurant and Farm Gate Restaurant, Midleton  or contact South & East Cork Area Development (SECAD) on 021 4613432. Limited availability.

For a more detailed festival programme, visit www.midletonfoodfestival.ie

Foodie events around Waterford from Thusday to Saturday, plus  A Sustainable Future for the Irish Food Industry conference on Friday 5th September, Tourism & Leisure Building, WIT, Waterford.

An important conference for all those involved in the Irish food chain including state bodies, retailers, growers, food producers and consumers. If you eat you should be there.
Check out the details on http://terramadreireland.com/

This just in from Healthy Food For All:

Healthy Food for All and */safe/food* are establishing a Demonstration Programme on Community Food Initiatives and are looking for funding applications from eligible groups and organisations. The purpose of this funding is to establish a Demonstration Programme of Community Food Initiatives (CFIs) on the island of Ireland. Between five and seven CFIs will be funded over a three year period. Each CFI will receive annual funding over a period of three years to set up, manage and sustain a project. Funding will be up to a maximum of €75,000 (£60,000) provided on *an incremental basis* over the three year period.
CFIs are projects that improve the availability and accessibility of healthy food for low-income groups at a local level, using a community development approach.
This funding is open to community groups or groups which have an anti-poverty focus in their work. We would especially welcome applications from partnerships/collaborations of different groups. As the programme has an all-island focus, a minimum of two projects will be selected from both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
For more information and to download application form, click on Community Food Initiatives <http://www.healthyfoodforall.com/content/view/58/42/>. More information about CFIs and case studies is available atwww.healthyfoodforall.com <http://www.healthyfoodforall.com>.
The closing date for applications is *30^th September 2008.*
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Phone or  email any queries :info@healthyfoodforall.com.
Sarah Fleming
Development Worker
Healthy Food for All
The Red House
Clonliffe College,
Dublin 3.
Tel: 353 1 8360011
Mobile: 353 86 3888728
Fax: 353 1 8367166

Following last weeks vote European Commissioners overturned the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) “safe to eat” verdict for three new GM crops — two varieties of GM maize and one variety of GM potato. This means the agro-chemical companies can’t commercialize these crops in Europe for now. BASF’s GM potato was only one European Union vote away from being released commercially. But the Commission has sent it to the back of the authorization queue. (from Greenpeace news)

Read more in the EU observer: http://euobserver.com/9/26098

Good Food on the Public Plate

International Workshop

Friday 9th May | 9am | Dublin Food Cooperative | 12 Newmarket, Dublin 8

An international workshop examining ways of raising food quality standards in hospitals, schools, care-homes by making public food catering, healthier and more ecologically sustainable.

Organised by AlimenTerra, the European association of organic farming organisations and sustainable food systems.

Please contact Clive Peckham for further information and bookings at cpeckham@alimenterra.org or Pauric Cannon at Dublin Food Co-op Tel 01 4544258. Organic and Fairtrade refreshments available.

To get there: see map at www.dublinfood.coop

Programme 9am Introduction by Clive Peckham, Director of AlimenTerra.

9.15am Keynote address by Mr Trevor Sargent TD, Minister for Food and Horticulture, Ireland.

10am Workshop (see contributors below): Quality ecologically sustainable food supply systems

3pm Talk by Clive Peckham, Director of AlimentTerra and co-author of Good Food on the Public Plate.