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Irish Independent
3 days ago
- Business
- Irish Independent
From selling produce at a Mayo country market a couple have gone and opened a cookery school
Located five kilometres southeast of Westport, Cabot's Cookery School aims to promote local food producers in the west of Ireland. 'The basic plan was always to build a unique building in a unique setting outside of Westport to promote all local, natural, and fresh produce,' said Redmond Cabot, founder of Cabot's Cooker School. Redmond Cabot arrived in west Mayo from Dublin in 2001 and started selling fine wines on a premises on Westport's Bridge Street in 2002. Six years later, he opened a restaurant with his fiancée Sandra Jordan, a native of Newport. In 2009, the couple moved to the Linen Mill in The Demesne. While studying horticulture locally in 2010, the couple were asked to sell their produce at Westport Country Market. After selling hummus and other dips at the long-established country market, the Cabots launched Cabots of Westport in 2014. Inspired by the ethos of Ballymaloe Cookery School, which promotes fresh, organic, locally-grown produce, the Cabots began producing and selling premium artisan sauces and dips in supermarkets, delis, and independent food stores nationwide. In 2018, Redmond Cabot purchased a twelve-acre site with the vision of building 'a mini version' of Ballymaloe Cookery School. In 2021, he secured planning permission to develop the cookery school. The following year, he secured funding of €189,000 through South-West Mayo Development Company from the European Leader funds for food. Surrounded by rolling hills and mature trees overlooking Kinlooey Lough, the school sits on land that was once a hunting ground on the Marquis of Sligo's country estate. Today the fields are grazed by the Cabots' sheep. Vegetables and herbs for the school are grown onsite. Over 180 visitors to the cookery school have already enjoyed courses on classic French cuisine, Italian kitchen cooking, Vietnamese street food, basic and intermediate bread-making. 'This summer we are looking forward to loads of interesting courses, Mexican cooking to Wild Atlantic fish workshops, and already the feedback has been fantastic,' said Sandra Cabot. Over 130 people attended the opening from the local farming, food, tourism, and business communities. Also in attendance were Minister for Social Protection and Rural and Community Development, Dara Calleary TD, and fellow Mayo TDs Paul Lawless, Alan Dillon and Keira Keogh. Representatives of Mayo County Council, South West Mayo Development Company, Leader, the Local Action Group, and Mayo Local Enterprise Office also attended the launch. Richard Gleeson, resident chef at Cabot's Cookery School, produced an array of food arrangements to showcase the variety and quality of local foods in the region. 'Having worked in many top-quality food establishments I can say the facilities and local produce here equals the very best I have worked with,' he said. Cabots Cookery School will strive to be 'a unique, environmentally friendly and sustainable business' that will complement Westport's existing tourist attractions.
Time of India
23-04-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Bharat that is Hindia?
Bachi Karkaria's Erratica and its cheeky sign-off character, Alec Smart, have had a growing league of followers since 1994 when the column began in the Metropolis on Saturday. It now appears on the Edit Page of the Times of India, every Thursday. It takes a sly dig at whatever has inflated political/celebrity egos, and got public knickers in a twist that week. It makes you chuckle, think and marvel at the elasticity of the English language. It is a shooting-from-the-lip advice column to the lovelorn and otherwise torn, telling them to stop cribbing and start living -- all in her her branded pithy, witty style. LESS ... MORE Raj (not Makepeace) Thackeray jumps on banwagon My joined-at-the-lip columnist, Jug Suraiya, wrote on Tamil Nadu CM Stalin's battle against infiltrating Hindification. Now Maharashtra's desperately-wannabe-CM, Raj Thackeray, has joined Word War too, leading to All Unquiet on the Western Front as well. With all guns blazing, Raj T wants to enforce the use of Marathi instead of not just Hindi, but also English. Bank of Maharashtra staff even had to ask for protection against his stormtroopers. This now-toothless tiger's latest rampage is of a piece with his aggressively cultivated image as last remaining champion of the original Shiv Sena raison d'être: 'tod-phod party'. But Balasaheb's hotheaded nephew tod-phodoed the party itself, forming breakaway MNS in 2006, after uncle anointed his own (milder) son Uddhav successor. Now both cousins are desperately seeking relevance, which has led to this week's talk of rapprochement. If that actually happens, it will be quite a Tamasha for Marathi and 'Marathi Manoos'. But there are no 'ifs' about forcible Hindi jaw-jaw leading to war-war. From South to East, the battle has been joined against this covert neo-colonialism by Hindi-speaking imperialists. 'Impose and rule' is being seen as their strategy. Seize reins via Trojan Horse of 'logical' three-language formula, their tactic. Paranoia? Really?! There's no such thing as surrogate mother tongue. Those not born to Hindi will suffer growing disability nationally. Globally too thanks to parallel lowering of English. Language is so emotive a tie that it unknotted Pakistan in 1971. Why, in the linguistic reorganisation of 1956, our own old state boundaries came to naught. Let non-BJP states reject a double engine, in schools as in sarkar. Fine. But if, next, each wants to drive only its own track, cross-border communication will get totally derailed. Already in alienating tower blocks, neighbours of different stripes don't speak to one another. Imagine if people from different states can't speak to one another. We'd end up like that verse about Boston 'Land of the bean and the cod/Where the Lowells talk (only) to the Cabots/And the Cabots talk only to God.' The possibility should leave you speechless. *** Alec Smart said: 'Paradise lost. 'Normalcy' gunned down. Who will Rest in Peace?' Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer This article is intended to bring a smile to your face. Any connection to events and characters in real life is coincidental.
