Edward Hayden
Edward makes a welcome return to Strokestown for this years food fair and we're delighted that he can join us and he'll be cooking up a storm for everyone in the demonstration area.
Edward Hayden is a chef and food writer and is very well-known to audiences from his weekly TV cookery appearances on Virgin Media’s Ireland AM. He also presents a weekly radio show, ‘The Saturday Show with Edward Hayden’, every Saturday morning on KCLR96fm. As well as this Edward is a frequent contributor on RTE Radio One’s “Drivetime”, “Liveline” and on “The Hard Shoulder” on Newstalk.
Edward works as a culinary lecturer in South East Technological University, where he is course leader of the Higher Certificate in Culinary Arts Programme. He also is the chef and proprietor of The Edward Hayden School of Cookery’ in his native Graignamanagh, which boasts a large selection of recreational cookery classes for both the novice and experience home cook.
Edward has published three cookery books ‘Edward Entertains’, ‘Food to Love’ with O’Brien Press (which was awarded the prestigious Kerry Food Book of the Year) and ‘Food for Friends’ with O’Brien Press,and has a forth book due for release in early 2027.
Edward regularly features recipes in many regional and national publications including ‘Food & Wine Magazine’, ‘Woman’s Way’ and ‘Irish Independent Weekend Magazine and Ireland Home Interiors as well as regional editions of in Independent Newspaper group.
Edward demonstrates all around the country at both a local and national level in a wide range of cookery demonstrations for local fundraising activities, food festivals, and agricultural shows including Bord Bia Bloom, Taste of Dublin, Tullow Agricultural Show, Savour Kilkenny & many more.
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Benny Sheridan
Benedetto is half Italian half Irish and grew up in Leixlip Co. Kildare. From very similar backgrounds his mam & Lisa's mam went to school together when they first moved to Ireland back in the 70s. Himself & Lisa met back in the homeland of Italy 14 years ago and have been together ever since. Benny worked in his family fish & chip business growing up and always enjoyed cooking and wanted to pursue a career in kitchens, he studied culinary arts in Cathal Brugha Street and has been working in kitchens for many years. He done work placement in the K Club and continued working there for sometime. He later went on to owning his own wine/ tapas bar in Leixlip for 4 years until himself and Lisa got married and we're expecting their first child, they decided to join forces and Benny took the big leap of moving to lovely county Longford where he now helps her run the renowned Vocella's. We are now in business 8 years and are going from strength to strength. We also have Vincent Meldrum working with us for the past 8 years and together our team is always full of experience & keen to improve & learn new things every day.
Kieron Moran
After the success of winning Best Product in 2018 Kieron Moran from Moran's Mega Jam will take to the stage to speak about the art of making some of the finest jam's in Ireland
Read more about Kieron and all the wonderful products available in the Moran's Mega Jam range.
Timea Kovak
We are delighted to welcome Timea back to the stage for another year. Timea will showcase some of her products from "The Best Free From" range and e on hand to answer any questions you may have
Read more about Timea and all the wonderful products available in her range.
Lorraine Aspil
Lorraine Aspil from Daisy Cottage crafts will join us once again this year to demonstrate how to make brown bread as well as some other favourites!
