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Theatre of Food at Electric Picnic has enjoyed a decade of success at Ireland’s leading music and arts festival, the Electric Picnic.
From inspiring food demonstrations to wacky cocktail masterclasses, Theatre of Food puts the theatrics into Ireland’s contemporary food culture.
To celebrate their big 10th birthday, the Theatre of Food is back and better than ever.
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For 2018, Theatre of Food will feature two new stages: the main stage, a new Workshop Theatre, and a brand new Drinks Theatre.
Theatre of Food will now feature everything from Intelligent Teas to fashion for women chefs, spice bags to Dia de los Muertos cakes, psychobiotics to sustainable fish shopping.
Top model turned foodie Rosanna Davison will also give a demo on the secrets of cooking to make you look and feel good.
Andy Noonan of Fowl Play and The Big Grill will be demonstrating a live fire feast inspired by South American techniques, making use of whole free-range Irish meat, slow-roasting whole animals over the open fire along with seasonal vegetables cooked in the embers and swinging above the fire.
Many of Ireland’s favourite cooks will be cooking the foods you love, so come see Kwanghi Chan talk about the spice-bag, Bryan McCarthy foraging for cocktails, whilst JR Ryal – head pastry chef of Ballymaloe House – will reveal the secrets of Ballymaloe’s famous dessert trolley, and Klaw’s Niall Sabongi will be cooking his much-loved seafood poké.
For the first-time ever, Theatre of Food will feature a fashion show of ethically-made Irish chefs-wear for women chefs. “For too long, women’s chef gear has been simply men’s gear with the odd dart,” said chef Caitlin Ruth, who commissioned a range of chefs’ gear from lingerie designer Ali Wheeler.
In the Workshop Tent, the Cupcake Bloke will be part of the children’s programme and Kevin Thornton will teach a group of festival-goers how to make bread. The Workshops and mainstage demos are operated with the assistance with Kenwood.
There will be talks on mood food with Professor Ted Dinan, author of The Psychobiotic Revolution. Chefs and writers doing their stuff over the weekend also include Grainne O’Keefe from Clanbrassil House, Chef Adrian, and Galway legend Jp McMahon.
We’ll see the return of Festival favourites – Gulp 4.0 looking at the science of food, whilst GAA star and food blogger Sinéad Delahunty will be looking at food and sport with surfer and cookery author Finn Ni Fhaolain.
In the Drinks Theatre, festival-goers will receive demos on making the perfect coffee; detox-retox; rhubarb martinis and Intelligent Tea, along with plenty of cocktails and mixology with Hennessy, Bacardi and Glenmorangie whisky. There will also be tastings of Slane Whiskey from Alex and Wolf Conyngham and wine tastings with Leslie Williams.
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