Alternative Bread Company

Unit 22 The English Market, Grande Parade, Cork.

It’s hard to believe that the Alternative Bread Company stall in the English market has been established for eleven years. Packed as it is with modern day breads to beat the band, it could almost be one of the newest additions to the array of epicurean delights this cult food market now offers Cork city shoppers. But no… this place is part of the culinary furniture of the market, and no wonder as Sheila Fitzpatrick has been in the food business for thirty years.

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Morrin O'Rourke Farm Foods

Belgard, Kilcock, Co Kildare

Co Kildare’s rolling countryside is home to the Morrin O’Rourke family’s 23-acre organic farm. Here they produce their organic beef and lamb that goes into their high quality organic pies. Their herds are reared according to the ethos that organic farming is a way of life, not just a means to an end, and in harmony with nature and seasons for a better quality of life. A commitment to the Slow Food way of eating and living is also reflected here and care and devotion to the end product always shines through in taste and texture, and we know you’ll agree when you eat one of these pies.

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On The Pigs Back

Stall 11, The English Market, Patricks Street, Cork.

There aren’t many people who love food who haven’t heard the name Isabel Sheridan. This French lady from the Loire Valley set up On the Pig’s Back in Cork’s gourmet English Market sixteen years ago. And her stall has grown to become on of the leading lights of food shopping in this culinary Mecca. Stocked with a vast array of home produced Irish farmhouse cheeses and home cured charcuterie of Good Food Ireland members like Gubbeen Smokehouse, and Jack McCarthy, fabulous handmade fresh sausages, G's Gourmet Jams and much, much more in the treasure trove of this food stall.

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Paddy's O'Granola

Cullahill, Portlaoise, Co Laois.

We all know breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And we love finding a breakfast that combines good health with good taste. Patrick O’Connell has brought those two essential elements of a good start to the day together, in one beautiful bag to produce Paddy's O'Granola. This granola mix of toasted cereals and nuts, dried fruit, honey and organic sunflower oil is packed with goodness and energy and works great in cooking and baking too!

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Pónaire

Unit E1 Annacotty Business Park Annacotty Co Limerick

Coffee lovers everywhere will enjoy Ponaire coffee. This family owned and run business is a local handcrafted coffee roaster, the only one in the Mid West region. As artisan producers, they are passionate about good, traceable, healthy food and strive to work closely to support other artisan producers throughout Ireland.

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