Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 1 of 14 Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 2 of 14 watch in 2016 design and media? ‘Irish Times’ writers select the class acts of the year ahead coining year promises to be a big one for many of Ireland’s young movers and shakers. Food Here, Irish Times writers offer their tips for 50 people to watch across 10 categories Dearbhla Reynolds in 2016, plus we have some experts’ predictionsFermentation of what the year ahead may bring. Fermentation is only going to get bigger in TheLastyear’s marriage referendum showed the appetite Ireland this year. Dearbhla Reynolds of the for activism in Ireland, and Una Mullally selects Cultured Club fizzes with enthusiasm activists working in areas as diverse as Direct Provision, about all things fermented and she kicks disability and violence against women; in food, off the year with a trip to Australia to help Catherine Cleary looks at the trends hurtling down build an “earth ship”. the tracks and the chefs and foodies taking note; in The project, two hours south of Sydney, tech, Ciara O’Brien had a wealth of young entrepreneurs involves building a house and filling it with and developers to select from (our youngest is people like Dearbhla, who will help prevent aged just 13); while the age profile remains low in the food waste by fermenting and preserving film and TV category, where Donald Clarke makes food. Closer to home Reynolds sells her his pick of those in front of and behind the camera. sauerkraut and fermented mayonnaise at In music, Jim Carroll offers up five acts who will be the Helen’s Bay organic farm stall, at St making waves this year; in sport, Malachy Clerkin George’s Market in Belfast, and runs reckons there’s an Olympic medal among his selection; workshops at Ox Restaurant in Belfast and Deirdrc McQuillan gives the nod to a group making Alchemy in Dublin. and wearing some of the best Irish fashion; Gemma The daughter of a pharmacist and a Tipton and Manchan Magan look at the arts and domestic science teacher, she discovered design scene, while in politics, Harry McGee looks fermentation in 2011 with a probiotic ahead to the general election and a young cohort of ketchup and set up the Cultured Club in politicians he sees succeeding at the ballot. 2012. “I just had to share it.” We gathered together many of the group at the Royal She’s on a one-woman campaign to Hospital in Kilmainham just before Christmas for a share the health benefits (a new book this series of portraits by Dara Mac Donaill. Join the conversationyear from Prof John Cryan and colleagues and suggest people you believe are worth in UCC will link gut bacteria to mental watching this year at irishtimes.com/lifeandstyle health). At 39, Reynolds looks a decade Rachel Collins younger. “Fermented foods are great for your skin so I’m getting away with a lot.” After Australia she has her sights set on Sitting, from left: Jordan Casey, Gearoid doing something about food waste in Muldowney (Superfolk), John Leahy (Renua), Jo Belfast and a book full of fermenting tips Anne Butler (Superfolk), Louise Bruton (Legless in with Gill and Macmillan due out in September. Dublin), Emer O’Daly (Love and Robots), Kathi theculturedclub.com Burke (illustrator), Maurice O’Connor (Sample Answer), Neil Lacey (The Green Kitchen), Ellie Aine Carlin Kisyombe (End Direct Provision), Rhona Togher Food blogging (Restored Hearing Ireland), Aine Mulloy, Pamela Aine Carlin started blogging six years ago Newenham and Elva Carri (Girl Crew). when she was living in London. An actor, Standing, from left: Jordanne Jones (actress), she started the blog as a place to keep all Lynne Ruane (Student and equality activism), Aoife her recipes. Food blogs were “very, very Mullane (textile designer), Grainne Walley (clothes different” then, she says. “They weren’t so designer), Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (actor), Niamh competitive. Websites weren’t superslick Scanlon (EU Digital Girl of the Year), Charlie Kelly and the photography was pretty ropey.” (actor), Aoibh O'Daly (Love and Robots), Sinead As a touring actor, cooking was a home O’Dwyer (fashion designer), Alan O'Neill (Men’s comfort she could bring along. She left Development Network), Paula Barrett (The Turf Derry at 18 for London, where she studied Project), Stephen Fingelton (director), Eoin O'Broin music. When she started the blog she was a (Sinn F6in), Duncan Walker (The Green Kitchen), “full-blown meat eater”. One of her first Caoimhe Kilfeather (artist), Aine Carlin (food posts was a beef stroganoff so the blog is blogger). Photograph: Dara Mac Dbnaill also an account of her road to vegan Irish Times-Magazine* Circulation: 82059 Saturday, 9 January 2016 Area of Clip: 1064500mm² Page: 8,9,10,1 Page 3 of 14 COVERSTORY eating: “If I can do it anyone can. ” Carlin sees herself as slightly out of step with the clean-eating brigade, where weight loss and beauty seem to be primary concerns. Her first book, Keep It Vegan, was written at a time when veganism was far less popular. Her second book, The New Vegan, came out on December 31st, and the 34-year-old will spend this year promoting it from Cornwall, where she lives with her husband. The name of her blog? It comes from Peasoup, her husband’s pet name for her. peasoupeats.com FOODAND TECH - above, from left: Neil Lacey & Duncan Walker food blogger Aine Carlin, coder Niamh The Green Kitchen Scanlon, Duncan Walker and Neil Lacey Neil Lacey was a restaurant manager in of The Green Kitchen, app developer New York before returning to Ireland, Jordan Casey and Rhona Togher of where he trained in addiction counselling. Restored Hearing: Top left: fermentation When a derelict pork butcher’s shop and expert Dearbhla Reynolds; Left: chef office in Walkinstown came up for regeneration Muireann McColgan; Right: chef Ruth it turned out to be the perfect home Lappin for both his skills. MAIN PHOTOGRAPH: DARA MAC DONAILL The Green Kitchen, in Walkinstown, opened in September 2014 after a dramatic transformation. It’s opposite Tony Kealey’s, the shop for buggies and car seats. Neil manages the cafe, which trains people in cooking and cafe skills. The Green Kitchen isn’t just a smart, friendly cafe where you can get a great breakfast, it’s a social enterprise, part of the Walkinstown favourite dish is the house-smoked salmon went to work as a chef de partie at Restaurant Green Social Enterprises or Walk, which they smoke with Earl Grey tea. Patrick Guilbaud, having worked run by Duncan Walker. Does she want her own place? “For the there part-time since her second year in In the large space at the back is a men’s moment I’m happy to learn more,” she college. Is it tough in a two-star kitchen? shed, where a “Cowboys Welcome” sign is says. “I’ve only been in kitchens for four “It’s like any kitchen. It’s quite a young hung over photographs of the men who years.” When she takes that busman’s kitchen,” she says, so her colleagues feel come to craft woodwork projects, everything winning the David Gumbledon Award, holiday to another kitchen she hopes to go like family, working 14-hour days together. from bird feeders to planters. which allows her to work at a world-class to Tom Kerridge’s Marlow gastropub The Guilbaud’shead chef Kieran Glennon There’s a polytunnel and garden centre, restaurant, a placement she has yet to take Hand and Flowers, delahunt.ie talked her into entering the Euro-toques where some ingredients for the cafe are up. Like many talented chefs, she hasn’t Young Chef of the Year and helped hone grown. Lots of people working in food had much time on her hands. She joined Ruth Lappin her dishes and, in November, she was want to make the world a better place. The the kitchen at Locks, in Dublin, and then Chef named the winner. She cooked sole glazed Walkinstown Green Kitchen shows how to moved to Delahunt, run by former classmate Originally from Dublin, Ruth Lappin (22) with lobster coral with tarragon pepper give people skills, dignity and purpose Darren Free, to work as sous chef grew up in Laois where her parents were and leeks as a garnish. Her pastry was a through a viable food business, walk.ie with head chef Dermot Staunton. hobby farmers who reared sheep and chocolate souffle tart. Plans for the future The former off-licence on Camden chickens. After she finished school, she will be to stay in Guilbauds - “They’ve been Muireann McColgan Street is where McColgan can cook the trained as a nurse but at the end of her first so good to me” - but also to travel. The first Chef kind of food she loves to eat. One of her year she switched to the culinary arts trip will be to Restaurant Gordon Ramsey At 25, Muireann McColgan returned to placements during college was at the degree in Dublin’s DIT. in London where she’ll work with Clare college to study culinary arts at DIT. She Ledbury, in London, and she was also a fan Nursing skills come in handy in the Smyth, one of the judges who named soon realised she’d found her niche. She of the Harwood Arms. Delahunt diners kitchen “if anyone needs bandaging”, she Lappin young chef of the year in 2015.