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For Sunday July 21st 2024, this is Food In 5 Minutes, the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories from the past week, from the Irish food scene and beyond, all served up in five minutes or less, ish.
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Resources this episode

Taste of Kildare official websiteTaste of Kildare ticket detailsEdible Dublin Food StrategyAdvice for consumers regarding consumption of slush ice drinksNearly half of Dublin food pubs report business decline due to VAT increase - LVA48% of Dublin pubs who serve food say VAT increase has lead to drop in businessLVA call for VAT cut againSugar tax on beverages – activism or sensible measure? (original article, translated from German)Germany mulls sugar tax: What are the benefits?Germany's potential billions in savings and health gains with sugar-sweetened beverage taxSugar tax in Germany could save up to 16 billion euros (Study)Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax (SSDT) (Revenue.ie)
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For Sunday July 14th 2028 this is Food In 5 Minutes, the part of the Ken On Food podcast that brings you five food stories from the Irish food scene and beyond, plucked from the past week and served up in five minutes or less, ish.
Supporting links for this week's stories can be found below.
Carlow Tourism
Carlow Garden Festival
Safefood: Meat thermometer use grows 20%
Coffee prices to keep rising for at least another year
Coffee prices will rise even higher (The Guardian)
Waterford Harvest Festival - What's On
Waterford Harvest Festival - Trader applications now open
US food giant Wendy's to launch in Ireland early next year (Newstalk)
US fast food chain Wendy's to open in Ireland (Irish Times)

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For Sunday 7 July 2024, it's time for another helping of Food In 5 Minutes with five stories from the past week drawn from the Irish food scene and beyond.
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90 million drinks containers returned in June as Ireland averages Three million bottles and cans per dayAs schools close for summer, many children benefiting from Hot School Meals Scheme risk missing out on their only hot meal of the dayCall for scheme to tackle 'holiday hunger' in childrenClimate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banksNon-alcohol beer continues to grow in popularity according to new report from Drinks Ireland|BeerNon-alcohol beer continues to grow in popularity – Drinks IrelandA New Two Star Restaurant in The MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2024The Guild entry in Michelin GuideDubai restaurant that includes a Kilkenny man among its Head Chefs secures Michelin special award

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On a weekend that has seen Taylor Swift take over Dublin’s Aviva Stadium for three nights, another outing for the family fun-packed Kaleidoscope Festival in Wicklow, Flavours of Fingal in Dublin and more. Galway beating Dublin in the All-Ireland football quarter-finals and more, this is Food In 5 Minutes for Sunday 30 June.
Links for this week's stories...

Ireland’s food waste equivalent to over one million meals per day, new figures showEPA: 53,000t of food waste generated at production stageTayto recalls crisps after ‘golf ball contamination’FSAI Tayto recall noticeFSAI Spuddy’s recall noticeSage announces restaurant closure onlineSage Restaurant in Midleton to close after 16 years in businessKevin Aherne on his next plan after Midleton's Sage Restaurant closes R&D leads to major Marks & Spencer deal for Fermoy businessDairy Concepts wins new contract with Marks & SpencerCork’s Dairy Concepts secures international contract with M&SHere’s Why McDonald’s Scrapped Its Plant-Based Burger in AmericaMcDonald's says verdict is in: US customers do not like McPlant burgers
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With temperatures for the week ahead set to tip the early-to-mid 20s, it's Sunday all over again, which means another helping of Food In 5 Minutes.
This week shines a light on...

SafeFood's Talk About Food reportFood Vision 2030 - Annual report 2023Food Vision 2023 - Annual report 2022Food Vision 2023 breakdownOpportunity to acquire a portfolio of KFC restaurants in IrelandCrunch time looms for smokey bacon crisps as EU bans potential cancerous flavouringEFSA: Smoke flavouringsMember States endorse withdrawal of smoke flavourings from EU marketLab-grown burgers and cricket salads 'could be meal staples' by 2054More talk about lab-grown burgers and cricket salads
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The elections are done and dusted, I've got a few days off, a hearty breakfast and a fresh cup of coffee.
This week's story highlights include...

Birdhill Coffee FestivalFSAI enforcement orders for May 2024Full list of winners: 2024 National Dairy AwardsEY Future Consumer IndexTheatre of Food: Grub Circus at this year's All Together Now
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