It's the last blast before Christmas hits to pick up some tips on turkeys and managing festive food waste.

Ken On Food

#033: Food in 5 Minutes - Managing festive food waste, LEADER funding and smart labelling technology

This week it's rapid Covid testing for restaurants, the biggest dishes from the NYT, seafood on TV and more.

#032: Food In 5 Minutes: Underapreciated food destinations, Flipdish, NYT's biggest recipes in 2020

This week there's a strong Christmas element including tips for turkey cooking and vegan dining.

#031: Food In 5 Minutes - Vegan Christmas, restaurants reopening, food on TV & business awards

It's another helping of Food In 5 Minutes for Sunday 29 November with five stories making headlines over the past week.

#030: Food In 5 Minutes - Restaurants reopening, Ireland's best takeaway, book awards winners

This week sees the RAI call for indoor dining to be permitted from 1 December, there's a look at food waste and Christmas cooking, talk of cookie decorating kits and the World Luxury Restaurant Awards.

#029: Food In 5 Minutes - Food Waste, Restaurant Awards, Christmas cooking on TV

This week it's McDonald's new delivery service and a ban on online junk food advertising; how much is Ireland's foodservice sector worth and is there a new way to achieve balance while dining.

#028: Food In 5 Minutes - McDonald's, Irish Foodservice, Junk Food Bans & Balance Plates

This week we hear from Sarah McGree of The Wild Grazer who's new business focuses on cheese and charcuterie boxes delivered in Kilkenny.

#027: Sarah McGree, The Wild Grazer

This week it's Beyond The Menu, the Just Eat National Takeaway Awards, Bord Bia's Talent Academy, Four Star Pizza's new vegan offering and Incredible Edibles.

#026 - Food In 5 Minutes, 8 November 2020

The Foodie Roundup is dead, long live The Foodie Roundup. Now, I'm bringing you Food In 5 Minutes - five food stories in five minutes spread across the past week. This week includes Savour Kilkenny, Irish Times Food Month, World Vegan Day, Ireland Loves Baking and Pumpkin Leftovers.

#025: Food In 5 Minutes, 1 November 2020

The one where I introduce you to UR Podcast and you get an hour with consultant gastroenterologist Dr. Alan Desmond on gut health and a whole food plant-based diet.

#023: UR Crossover - Gut Health with Dr. Alan Desmond & Urban Gym Crew

Tom Comerford is the executive chef at the Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel. In the first of the 2020 chef series, we talk our way through an organic chicken dish, discover what it takes to run a large hotel kitchen and restaurant and more besides.

#022: Tom Comerford, Kilkenny Ormonde Hotel

This week I've been spending time in the kitchen and gardens with chef Keith Boyle of Restaurant Lady Anne, Castlecomer who whips up a sweet treat using ingredients sourced 90 seconds from the restaurant.

#017: Restaurant Lady Anne - Savour Food Provenance

With a strong #tastekilkenny element to Frank's menu, I sit down with the owner of Petronella restaurant in Kilkenny to talk food and history over lunch.

#015: Frank Curran, Petronella - Savour Food Provenance

I've been at the National Ploughing Championships all this week and on Wednesday had a chance to catch up with Eva Milka from Carlow's Gaelic Escargot along with a chance encounter with Tipperary operation Global Hydrate.

#014: Gaelic Escargot, Global Hydrate at the National Ploughing Championships

Kilkenny's only smokehouse, you'll find it hard to get a table in Paris Texas at the weekend. I chat with proprietor Pat Crotty and chef Keith Kelly to find out what makes it tick.

#013: Chef Keith Kelly at Paris Texas - Savour Food Provenance

Ken on Food is a food-based podcast presented by Ken McGuire. Hear from Irish food producers, discover Irish food events and share in stories that make the Irish food scene tick.