Chew The Fat

Chew The Fat

"Chew The Fat" is the podcast by food & travel bloggers "GastroGays", otherwise known as Russell Alford & Patrick Hanlon. Each Friday, a new episode will be available featuring a casual converstation with someone, that in some way, shape or form will always lead back to food.

Episodes

June 21, 2018 49 mins
For the first episode of our brand new podcast called Chew The Fat, we're sticking around our hometown area of the Boyne Valley. This region of the Republic's northeastern coastline is becoming more and more noted for its incredible food and drinks producers. Every few months, we're beaming with joy to discover a new product is on the shelves and has been produced only up the road from us, so we went out into the field, armed with ...
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One of our favourite activities to do whenever we visit a city is to link up with some local tour guides and explore the city through their eyes. Among the top tours we've done without doubt is the Belfast Food Tour, founded by Caroline Wilson. Now an empire consisting of several tours around Belfast and beyond, Caroline knows this city inside and out, and as you listen to this edition of "Chew The Fat", you'll hear just that. B...
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Sometimes this blog has allowed us go on pilgrimages of sorts. This episode of our podcast Chew The Fat really was just that. For years, we've loved Bertha's Revenge, a small-batch Irish milk gin, made on the grounds of Ballyvolane House, Co. Cork. Behind the magical spirit is business partners Justin Green and Antony Jackson, who as experienced gin drinkers really struck a cord with those of us most enthusiastic about the spirit w...
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Guinness. Love it or hate it, there's no denying the global impact this Dublin-born and Dublin-made beverage has had on the world, no more so than in Ireland itself – it's still the most ordered and most recognisable pint in every pub in the country. But this podcast episode is about the Open Gate Brewery – a brewery inside a brewery. One of the most recognisable drinks the world over, the black stuff is an iconic stout, and St....

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We've talked to producers, tour guides, distillers and brewers so far in the first few episodes of Chew The Fat, now we're talking to our first restaurateur. Actually, a pair of restaurateurs. Las Tapas De Lola burst onto Dublin's dining scene in 2013 and five years later it's stronger than ever. Positioned on arguably the casual restaurant highway of Dublin running from Dame Street straight to Rathmines, Anna Cabrera and Vanessa M...
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Golden. Delicious. Creamy. Salty. Rich. Butter. In this week's episode - which marks the half-way point of series 1 of our new podcast Chew The Fat - we find ourselves in the beautiful rolling emerald hills of Co. Down at the home of Abernethy Butter, the award-winning, handmade butter brand based out of Dromara, created by husband-and-wife duo Allison and Will Abernethy. Driving through Northern Ireland admiring the stu...
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This week’s episode of Chew The Fat is all about the spoils of the sea, from the captain of the ship steering Ireland as a whole towards enjoying more seafood – Niall Sabongi. Sitting in his Seafood Cafe on Fownes Street in the heart of Temple Bar, we ask about his beginnings in the restaurant industry, how he built a shellfish-led empire across the city in the form of his trio of KLAW restaurants and also the wholesa...

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Cluck, cluck! In this week’s episode of Chew The Fat, we chat to Fowl Play owner, The Big Grill co-founder and all-around BBQ genius, Andy Noonan.  Chatting to him in his restaurant within a pub - the live fire chicken joint Fowl Play within the Square Ball Pub around Grand Canal Dock - we ask about how we chose to open his first kitchen in such a unique place, as well as some BBQ tips for those who feel amateur in their gril...
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August 16, 2018 28 mins

Comber, a town outside Belfast in Northern Ireland, is fast becoming a food destination – because of one pair in particular, really. In this week’s episode of Chew The Fat, we drop by Indie Fude – a deli and speciality food shop that’s a Mecca for food lovers, wonderfully-stocked with small, artisan, craft producers from the island of Ireland exclusively.

Throughout this debut series of Chew The Fat w...

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Okay, we are pinching ourselves that in this week’s episode of Chew The Fat we are speaking with a Eurovision legend, who actually loves talking about food as much as we do. Yes, this week, we are coming to you from Niamh Kavanagh’s kitchen for a very different edition of the podcast. Eurovision Song Contest winner AND Celebrity Masterchef Champion, we find ourselves having a long and amazing chat with Queen Kavanagh in her Ca...
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August 30, 2018 41 mins
In this week's episode of Chew The Fat, the penultimate episode of series one of our podcast, we sit down with Donal Skehan to talk penning cookbooks, family life, presenting entirely in Swedish, travel inspirations and his guilty pleasure – Eurovision! Source: Donal Skehan (Instagram) Before you knew him as the accomplished food writer and TV presenter fast becoming a household name the world over, Skehan worked in TV produc...
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So here we are, 12 weeks later. Three months since we took you on a tour of our local area, The Boyne Valley, for the first episode of "Chew The Fat". Thousands upon thousands of listens later, episode after episode of fantastically interesting and diverse personalities, after the newspaper articles, inclusions and mentions, after the dizzying heights of topping the Apple Podcasts charts on many occasions, it's time to say goodbye ...
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Round 2! Chew The Fat is back for its second series, taking us right up until the end of the year with 12 more exciting and entertaining episodes for your listening pleasure. After our brief break - to take a breather and try and digest the massive response to the first series - we hope you enjoy listening to each Chew The Fat episode as much as we enjoy making them! We love heading out around the country, microphone in hand and an...
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We've got such grá (love, as Gaeilge, for international listeners) for Northern Ireland... but you knew that already! From walking the streets of Belfast with Caroline Wilson to pulling up a chair at Alison Abernethy's table in Co. Down, we've already documented some of our favourite people in NI food in this podcast; but we're only getting started. We've written about driving along Northern Ireland's Causeway Coast route (a MUST-D...
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In this week's episode of Chew The Fat, we are sitting down for a chat with none other than Nigella Lawson. One of the most iconic food writers in the world right now, with eleven books to her name, Nigella landed in Dublin this week for a special show at the National Concert Hall celebrating 20 years of "How To Eat", her debut book, and we were lucky to be able to get some time to sit down and chat through a range of topics. ...

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Every October, Dingle is the destination for food lovers. Not only is the fantastic and ever popular Dingle Food Festival taking place, but it's also time for the Blas na hÉireann awards, the top food awards for producers in Ireland. In this episode of Chew The Fat, we wish to give you a little glimpse behind the scenes, to tell the story behind the sticker, so to speak. We've been lucky for the past couple of years to be part...

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This week on Chew The Fat we're in London to chat with Ryan Riley, the food writer and stylist who is founder of Life Kitchen. A project founded in memory of his mother, Krista, who died five years ago at the age of 47 from small-cell lung cancer. In a short space of time, Life Kitchen has hosted cookery classes for over 500 guests, many of whom are living with cancer, and has been a vocal force in education, awareness and  em...

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There’s a guy about Dublin. He’s the man behind so many of the city’s iconic fast-casuals. He’s one of the city’s hospitality scene’s most notable and iconic faces. He’s really a one name diva: Joe.

So much so, that his name is the moniker for his first restaurant, Jo’Burger. Then, we all later got to meet some of his next incarnations - Crackbird, that iconic fried chicken joint, Skinflint (amazingly...

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Two giants of the Irish food industry shouldn't collide... the best ones collaborate. In this week's episode of the podcast, brought to you by GastroGays, we Chew The Fat with Peter Hannan of Hannan's Meats/The Meat Merchant and Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers. Two absolutely stellar Supreme Champions in their fields (with a ridiiiiculous amount of awards between them), 2018 marks the first in a key partnership and a future co...

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In this episode of Chew The Fat, we're in one of our favourite places on earth to eat, Eastern Seaboard – and it happens to be in the town we call home. We sit down with Jeni Glasgow and Reuven Diaz to chew the fat about being creatives in a business world, ten years of a groundbreaking restaurant in residential Drogheda, aspirations for the future and revealing the BIG changes planned for 2019 as the pair embark upon...

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