2009 Féile Bia Na Mara / Seafood Festival
9th - 13th July 2009
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This article was first published in June 2009 in anticipation of the 2009 Féile Bia Na Mara / Seafood Festival on Achill Island. It is retained here for reference only.
For details of the latest Féile Bia Na Mara please visit the Achill Seafood Festival website at www.feilebianamara.ie.
About Clodagh McKenna
TV chef and writer Clodagh McKenna will officially open the 2009 Féile Bia Na Mara / Seafood Festival at a Gala Buffet in Óstán Oileán Acla on Friday 10th July. The following day, Clodagh will be signing copies of her new book, 'Fresh from the Sea', at Sweeney's Supervalu, Achill Sound, at 11am. In the afternoon she will judge the recipe competition and will give a cookery demonstration at Mastersons, Dugort, beginning at 2pm.
 Clodagh McKenna trained as a chef at Ballymaloe Cookery School and then went on to work as a chef in Ballymaloe House for 3 years. After an inspiring visit to the Midleton Market, Clodagh decided to leave the kitchen and set up her own stall at the local market. Soon after, Clodagh was developing other farmers markets around Ireland.
Currently, she has her own weekly column for the Irish Examiner and a monthly column for RSVP Magazine. In addition to her regular columns, Clodagh has also a written for the Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune, Aer Lingus Magazine, Delicious Magazine, Image Interiors and she is also the editor of the Slow Food Ireland Guide to Producers. Clodagh has appeared as a cook and promoter of local produce on RTE's, Out of The Blue; Rick Stein's Food Heroes, (BBC2); TV3's Ireland AM Show; RTE’s The Late Late Show, Saturday Cooks (ITV), Saturday Kitchen (BBC1), The Today Show (NBC in USA), RTE's The Afternoon Show and is a regular chef presenter for UKTV's Market Kitchen and BBC’s Food Poker. Her first book The Irish Farmers' Market Cookbook was published by Harper Collins in November 2006 and she has filmed a TV series to accompany the book which is titled Fresh from the Farmers Markets which debuted on RTE 1 in 2007. Part two of the series was broadcasted over the summer of 2008 and was also picked up by media outlets throughout Europe & New Zealand.
The third series, Fresh From the Sea, will air June 30th 2009 on RTE 1. Clodagh has just completed writing her second book, Fresh From the Sea, which was released in May to coincide with her series.
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