Festival to celebrate 100 years of food since Rising

The Galway Food Festival, which takes place over the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend in 2016, will this year have a strong flavour of history.

In tandem with the commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising, this year’s Festival will celebrate 100 Years of Irish food, honouring and rediscovering Ireland’s culinary heritage, decade by decade over the past century.

Focusing on a theme from each decade, Galway Food Festival will present a delectable demonstration on the rich traditions steeped in 10 decades of Irish food.

Galway’s unique and thriving dining scene will proudly present a host of culinary events across the City, exploring the traditions, products and dishes that have evolved over the past 100 years.

A city once dominated by the 14 Tribes, Galway is now home to an array of over 43 nationalities, each offering a new assortment to the dynamic and multicultural culinary melting pot.

Each theme will be speckled across the city, with an array of events that will celebrate the diversity of the history of Irish food.

A host of Ireland’s top chefs and food historians will present a series of events, exploring the tapestry of Ireland’s food movement over the past century.

From active discussions in the Druid Lane Theatre to live cookery demonstrations at the Food Festival Village, the city will be transformed into a veritable gourmand’s paradise with numerous artisan food and craft markets, cookery demonstrations, city food tours, movies, taste trails and a host of dining events in local hotels, restaurants, cafés and bars.

More than 70,000 people attended last year’s Galway Food Festival with over 100 food outlets and producers from across the city and county taking part.

It promises to be a spectacular celebration of Ireland’s diverse history of food.