LISTOWEL FOOD FAIR

21 YEARS

JUNE 18th - JUNE 21st, 2015 www.listowelfoodfair.ie

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FAMILY FUN

COOKING & TASTINGs

Competitions

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A BIG WARM WELCOME TO LISTOWEL’S 21st FOOD FAIR! Listowel Food Fair has come of age. Twenty one years of continued success will be celebrated this year with a bigger and better festival and a new date. This year’s Food Fair is being moved to June. To celebrate the 21st we will host the inaugural All Ireland Craft Beer Championships and a whole range of foodie fun. The shift to summer will mean lots of open air activities including barbeques, food foraging in the local park known by the natives as The Cow’s Lawn and a food trail through the old heritage town of Listowel, on the hub of The Wild Atlantic Way. Kerry Group, the biggest food ingredients company in the world, started out here. The rich farmland of North Kerry provides food fit for kings and our unique farming seminars are geared towards the enhancement of our local produce. Listowel is the people’s food festival and we encourage and promote emerging artisan producers who are given prizes and publicity. Their genius and endeavour is celebrated at our Gourmet Celebration Dinner.

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Our childrens’ activities include school competitions and workshops and our new nutrition events place an emphasis on healthy eating. Bring the family for the day out! Listowel’s restaurants have won numerous awards including Kerry Chef of the Year and Georgina Campbell’s Best Casual Dining. There are famous pubs too in this town that boxes well above its weight when it comes to festivals. Listowel is all about genius, tradition, friendship, innovation, education and fun. There are workshops and cooking demos, big stars from the world of cooking and a superb Farmer’s Market in the Town Square. Listowel has always been a food town and a fun town. Our visitors come as tourists and leave as friends. You are all invited to our 21st. Ah but it will be some party. Billy Keane | Writer and Journalist | The Irish Independent

Kathy Buckley - American Presidents’ Cook Unveiling of Plaque by U.S. Ambassador 26 Upper William St. | 5pm - 6pm Official Opening Night & Publicans Vs Traders Cook Off The Arms Hotel | 7pm Sharp Proceeds go to Kerry Parents & Friends Association. Tickets available at The Listowel Arms and John R’s.

Friday 19th June Farmers Market, Jazz & Al Fresco Dining The Square | 10am - 2pm

Food Business - Start-up, Development & Use of Technology. Speakers - Norah Casey, Melanie Harty. Seanchai Centre | 10am - 12pm | €10

To Book Call 068 22212

The Importance of Fitness for Children Listowel Community Centre Morning | Entry via Schools Contact 087 151 5627 / 068 22244

Food Photography | Pat Tobin The Arms Hotel | 11am - 1pm | €10

How Healthy is your Relationship with Food? | Sid Sheehan Seanchai Centre | 2pm - 3pm | €5 Contact 087 384 8818

Know & Grow Your Healing Herbs Listowel Garden Centre | 3 - 4pm | €5 Contact 086 193 9217 / 068 22908



Gourmet Celebration Dinner with Best Emerging Artisan Food Products. Drinks Reception, 7 Course Tasting Menu, with wine and after-dinner jazz. The Arms Hotel | 7pm | €50

To book 068 21500

Pop-up Restaurant in Café Hanna John R’s. Contact 068 21249 for details.

Sat 20th June Baking Competition for Adults & Kids Garveys SuperValu | 10am Cookarama Baking Workshops for Kids Listowel Community College 10am & 12noon | €9 Contact 087 642 4888

Contact 087 650 9427

A Taste of Kerry Food Sampling Garvey’s SuperValu | 10am - 3pm

Garvey’s Radio Kerry Outside Broadcast & Fun for Kids 11am - 1pm

Food Trail & Tastings Around Listowel 2pm - 5pm

All Ireland Craft Beer Champions Craft Beer Tasting & BBQ Stack’s Beer Garden | From 5 pm | €10 Final Stage of Amateur Recipe Competition The Listowel Arms, Allo’s, Behan’s Horseshoe, Eabha Joans. From 6pm Pop-up Restaurant in Café Hanna John R’s. Contact 068 21249 for details.

Music & Food for Thought John B Keane’s | 9.30pm

SUN 21st June Foraging in the Town Park Meet at Listowel Community Centre 11.45am | Free event Outdoor Food & Fun in the Square: Summer Foods, Music & Dance, Food Stalls The Square, 12 - 4pm Craft Fair | Seanchai Centre | 11am - 5pm Theatrix Show for Kids by Kids St. John’s Theatre | 5pm Live Band | Christy’s | Sunday Evening Food Photography Winners Exhibition THE ARMS HOTEL THURS - SUN

General Enquiries TEL. 085 744 8132 OR EMAIL. [email protected]

AT A GLANCE

Thurs 18th June

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THURSDAY 4

This remarkable lady will be honoured with the unveiling of a plaque in her memory by U.S. Ambassador Kevin O’Malley at her original home, 26 Upper William Street at this year’s Listowel Food Fair.

TRIBUTE TO KATHY BUCKLEY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS COOK FREE ENTRY Date | June 18th TIME | 5 pm VENUE | Outside 26 upper william st. The story of Listowel woman Kathy Buckley who became chef for American presidents in the White House is a remarkable one. Born in 1885 at 26 Upper William Street, Listowel, Kathy was educated at the Convent Primary School in Listowel and afterwards secured employment as a trainee cook from the Huggard family at the renowned Butler Arms Hotel in Waterville. In the early years of the 1900s an entourage of wealthy Americans, led by the famous banker and financier J.P. Morgan, visited the hotel. Morgan was so impressed by the quality of the cuisine that he offered Kathy a position at his own mansion in Connecticut. She rapidly progressed to become head chef at Morgan’s home and from there was invited by his personal friend, incoming President Calvin Coolidge, to become head of the White House kitchens. Kathy retained this position during his and the subsequent terms of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt. From various anecdotes Kathy appeared to have a good personal relationship with the Presidents. Thanks to local historian Vincent Carmody, many stories prevail about ‘Kathy White House’ as she became known on her visits back to Listowel. Kathy retired to her beloved home on the banks of the River Feale in the early fifties. Kathy Buckley, cook extraordinaire to three American Presidents, died on 19.07.69.

TICKETS S15 Date | June 18th TIME | 7 pm sharp VENUE | the listowel arms hotel Celebrations for the 21st Listowel food fair will kick off in style with a fun-filled and highly competitive night, providing great entertainment for the people of Listowel and visitors alike. Our festival will be officially opened by the U.S. Ambassador.

LISTOWEL PUBLICANS VERSUS TRADERS COOK OFF Listowel Traders and Publicans will don their chef whites and team up with their mentor-chefs from local restaurants. Master of Ceremonies for the evening, Sean Lyons, will grill the ‘chefs’ on their culinary expertise! Temperatures will be running high as the ‘chefs’ aim to impress judges, Culinary Lecturer of Tralee Institute Dan Browne and Chef & Nutritional Therapist Sid Sheehan. The winner will be crowned Listowel’s next top culinary guru! ‘Celebrity Chefs’ Danny Russell (Changes Hair & Beauty Salon), Mairead O’Gorman (Perfect Pairs Shoe Boutique), Brian Scanlon

(Coco Boutique), Billy Keane (John B Keane’s Pub), Gordon Flannery (Con Dillons Pub), Christy Walsh (Christy’s The Well Pub). ‘Chef Mentors’ Armel Whyte (Allo’s Bar Bistro & Restaurant), Kevin Purcell (The Horseshoe Bar & Restaurant), Fergus Flanagan (Maid of Erin Guest House Restaurant), Jason Kane (Eabha Joans Restaurant), Lizzy Lyons (Lizzy’s Little Kitchen), Steve Trew (Casa Mia Restaurant).

Prizes will be presented to the winners of the Bord Bia Schools Competition. Kindly sponsored by Bord Bia, Flo Gas, Spar Listowel. Proceeds will be shared between Kerry Parents and Friends Association and The Listowel Food Fair.

THURSDAY

LISTOWEL FOOD FAIR 2015 OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT

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FRIDAY

FRIDAY FARMERS MARKET

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Date | June 19th TIME | 10 am - 2 PM VENUE | the square

FREE ENTRY

Listowel’s long tradition and established reputation of offering high quality food produce at our weekly Farmers Market will be celebrated once again on Friday! Jazz up your Friday morning with the great sounds from David Wrath band, as you browse through the stalls of local artisan producers. Feast and fill your larder with the best that the region has to offer.

You are invited to dine al fresco and enjoy wonderful produce such as organic BBQ burgers and sausages, crepes, paella, salads, soups and chowders, homemade gluten free baking, artisan pies, delightful cakes and a selection of the finest cheeses.

Come early and get useful tips from the cooking demo by Karen Coakley of Kenmare Foodies.

There will be fun for the kids with face painting and balloons. Not to be missed!

FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY WINNERS EXHIBITION

The top 20 images submitted are chosen by a judging panel and will be on display throughout the Listowel Food Fair weekend at The Listowel Arms Hotel.

FREE ENTRY Date | THURS- SUNDAY TIME | ALL DAY VENUE | THE LISTOWEL ARMS HOTEL

The theme of this years competition is the depiction of Irish Artisan Foods. Entries are requested from interested parties by May 15th. More details on the competition are available at www.listowelfoodfair.ie

Sponsored by Listowel Credit Union and McGuires Pharmacy.

You are all invited to this open exhibition. Free admission. The Winner and Runner-up will be announced at the Gourmet Celebration Dinner at the Listowel Arms Hotel.

This year Listowel Food Fair are launching the inaugural All-Ireland Food Photography competition!

Gourmet Celebration Dinner & BEST EMERGING ARTISAN FOOD COMPETITION

Last year’s inaugural dinner showcasing the amazing products which won the Best Emerging Artisan Food competition was a huge success. A 7 course tasting menu lovingly prepared by the team of chefs at the Listowel Arms Hotel was enjoyed by food lovers. So, book your table early for this year! Tickets are €50, including drinks reception, dinner, wine and after dinner jazz with Linda Galvin. Our Best Emerging Artisan Food Competition has become a key feature of Listowel Food Fair. We invite artisan food producers to have their new food products assessed by a judging panel. The overall competition winner will have their winning product displayed on the shelves of Garvey’s Supervalu in Listowel for a period of 12 months, in addition to an overall prize fund of €2000 sponsored by LEO. The 6 winners of the Best Emerging Artisan Food Competition will receive their awards at our Gourmet Celebration Dinner. Should you wish to enter your product in the competition, please refer to www.listowelfoodfair.ie Competitions - Best Emerging Artisan Food Product. Deadline is May 18th.

The winner of the All Ireland Food Photography Competition be officially announced on the night.

FRIDAY

Date | June 19th TIME | RECEPTION 7pm, dinner 7.30pm VENUE | the LISTOWEL ARMS HOTEL

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GET YOUR RECIPE COOKED IN A LISTOWEL RESTAURANT Date | June 20th TIME | from 6 pm VENUE | participating restaurants This year, for the first time, we are running a competition for all amateur home chefs who have a treasured signature recipe that they would like to showcase to the world. This is your chance to get your recipe cooked by professionals in one of Listowel’s restaurants.

Our recipe competition closing date is

18.05.2015

From entries received, 8 recipes will be shortlisted by our judging panel to appear as a ‘Special’ dish on the menu of one of the 4 participating restaurants on Saturday June 20th (2 recipes per restaurant). Our judges include IT Tralee’s Culinary Lecturer Dan Browne, Nutritional Therapist, Sid Sheehan and renowned local chefs. The ‘Special’ dish that gets most orders from the 2 featured on the night in each participating restaurant will win and the recipe owner will get a prize to the total value of €200.  The recipe owner will need to be in attendance at the restaurant on the night that their dish is being served. Shortlisted recipes and the restaurant in which they will be featured will be listed online www.listowelfoodfair.ie Participating Restaurants include Allo’s Bar Bistro & Restaurant, Georgian Restaurant of The Listowel Arms Hotel, Eabha Joans Restaurant, The Horseshoe Bar & Restaurant.

ENTRY S10.00 Date | June 20th TIME | FROM 5 pm VENUE | STACK’S BEER GARDEN A new and exciting addition to this year’s Food Fair will be the crowning of the All Ireland Craft Beer Champion. There has been a huge surge of interest in craft beer and now we have numerous breweries specialising in the art of craft beer. Craft beer is a natural fit to our tradition of promoting artisan food producers. This competition is open to the boutique craft beer companies or the individual brewer. We invite all breweries in Ireland to submit their best summer beers to the competition. Our experts will select 8 finalists. The finalists will be required to serve their beers to both the judges and the public during the festival. The winner will be selected during the festival and crowned as the ‘The All Ireland Craft Beer Champion 2015’. Follow your brewer to the designated pub for more tasting and fun from 10 pm. Visit our facebook page and website www.listowelfoodfair.ie for more details.

SATURDAY

ALL IRELAND CRAFT BEER CHAMPIONS

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SUNDAY

OUTDOOR FOOD & FUN IN THE SQUARE Date | June 21ST TIME | 12 NOON - 4 PM VENUE | THE SQUARE

EVERYONE WELCOME

Summer Foods, Street Entertainment, Music & Dance, Kids Fun, Food Stalls and Craft Fair! Commencing at 12 noon, just in time for lunch, the BBQ will be hot and sizzling and ready to take your orders! Satisfy your hunger for as little as W5. Take a stroll around The Square and browse the artisan food and crafts fair. Our Crafts Fair will run from 11 am until 5pm at the Seanchai Centre while open air food stalls will whet your appetite with all kinds of wonderful cuisine delights. Join in the carnival atmosphere, get into the summer buzz and have fun by dancing along with Kerry’s Queen of Zumba, Linda Flanagan. Young and old are invited to drum and dance with Drum Dance Ireland.

Make the Summer Solstice 2015 a memorable and happy one in Listowel! The longest running food fair in Ireland will culminate on the longest day of the year! Free popcorn and homemade lemonade for kids! 10

FORAGING IN LISTOWEL TOWN PARK

Listowel Food Fair’s move to June this year means that we will have a much greater focus on outdoor food, fun and frolics. We will be expecting the sun to shine brightly for us on Sunday as a great day of outdoor entertainment will kick off early with an educational and fun morning of foraging in Listowel town park. Bring the family along, team up with the experts and go on a hunt for whatever provisions the park has to offer. Led by Medical Herbalist Chris Best, this is an opportunity to see your local park in a whole new light!

THEATRIX DRAMA PERFORMANCE IN ST.JOHN’S ENTRY S3.00

Date | June 21ST TIME | 5 PM VENUE | ST. JOHNS THEATRE

Join the cast and crew of the Listowel Theatrix Children’s Drama group for one of their outstanding performances that is always a hit with children and adults alike. With expert coaching & mentoring from the drama group leader Jo Jordan, the children will deliver an entertaining food inspired show for all the family. Not to be missed!

SUNDAY

FREE EVENT

Date | June 21ST TIME | 11.45 am VENUE | MEET AT COMMUNITY CENTRE

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FOOD BUSINESS START UP, DEVELOPMENT & USE OF TECHNOLOGY ENTRY S10

Date | June 19th TIME | 10AM - 12noon VENUE | SEANCHAI centre

Norah Casey, broadcaster and publisher and Melanie Harty of Taste Kerry, as well as other professionals in business and food will give an insight into what’s involved in getting a food business up and running and what to expect along the way. For updated list of speakers refer to website. To book call the Seanchai Center 068 22 212. In association with KBN.

THE IMPORTANCE OF FITNESS & DIET FOR CHILDREN FREE ENTRY Date | June 19th VIA SCHOOLS TIME | MORNING VENUE | COMMUNITY CENTRE A games-packed schools event run by Foundation Sports in conjunction with Listowel Community Centre. For further information please contact Listowel Community Centre at 068 22244 or Brendan Hogan at 087 1515627 and at www.foundation-sports.ie

FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY: CREATIVE USE OF LIGHT ENTRY S10

Date | June 19th TIME | 11 AM - 1 PM VENUE | THE LISTOWEL ARMS HOTEL

For anyone wishing to create beautiful food images, either to showcase your own food or for food bloggers with an interest in photography. Elements of lighting, styling and editing will be covered. Pat Tobin, Photographer. To book call 087 650 9427

ENTRY S5.00 Date | June 19th TIME | 2 - 3 PM VENUE | SEANCHAI CENTRE “Eat well, Feel well” Sid Sheehan will give you the best professional and effective advice that will change your life for the better. Sid Sheehan, Chef and Nutritional Therapist. To book call 087 384 8818

KNOW & GROW YOUR HEALING HERBS ENTRY S5.00 Date | June 19th TIME | 3 - 4 PM VENUE | THE GARDEN CENTRE Learn all about healing herbs : Chris and Kerry will give you the best advice for optimum health. Chris Best, Medical Herbalist & Kerry Brassil, Garden Centre. To book call 086 193 9217 / 068 22 908

WORKSHOPS

HOW HEALTHY IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH FOOD?

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DEMOS & TASTINGS

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FARMERS MARKET Cooking Demo : Healthy hearty breakfast and brunch using ingredients from Listowel Farmers Market. DATE | FRIDAY JUNE 19Th By | KAREN COAKLEY, KENMARE FOODIES VENUE | The Square TIME | 10.45am

FOOD TRAIL Tastings for as little as @2 from restaurants, shops and pubs throughout the Listowel heritage town. Visit www.listowelfoodfair.ie for updated list of participating businesses. DATE | SATURDAY JUNE 20TH VENUE | all around the town TIME | 2 - 5 Pm

SMOKING YOUR FOOD Kingdom Smoke and Cure with Jimmy Harris and Johnny Kelliher. DATE | SUNDAY JUNE 21ST VENUE | THE SQUARE TIME | 1Pm

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BAKING WITH STRAWBERRIES COMPETITION & JUNIOR BAKING COMPETITION

Adults: Dust off your favourite strawberry recipe and bake to impress our judges at this year’s adult baking competition. Juniors: Bring along a cake, cupcakes, biscuits or whatever sweet treat that you feel may win! Kindly sponsored by Garvey’s SuperValu Listowel, we request that you use SuperValu own brand products in your baking where possible. Finalists will be awarded prizes, including vouchers, SuperValu Baking Hamper and a Bakery Workshop at Nourish by Nature’s Cookery School.

COOKARAMA BAKING WORKSHOP FOR KIDS

If you’re not yet ready for bakery competitions, why not join our fun kids baking workshop under the guidance of experienced bakers. Two baking workshops on Saturday 20th at 10am and 12noon at Listowel Community College. For ages 6 to 12 years. Entry is €9 booking is essential. Call Breda on 087 642 4888.

BAKING

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Date | June 20TH TIME | 10 AM VENUE | GARVEYS SUPERVALU

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