Slow Food Seminar – Saturday 7th October

Learn to harvest & cook sea vegetables as a healthy, nutritious, tasty, alternative
Kilfaressey strand on the Copper Coast and afterwards at the Bistro in Annestown, Co. Waterford. Saturday the 7th of October from 10.30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Cooking with Sea Vegetables

The Ancient Celts and the Vikings understood the benefits of this nutritious food and used several varieties of sea vegetable in their staple diets. One of the best known of these is the traditional Welsh ‘’Laver bread’’ Saint Columba, records that his monks gathered ‘’Dillisk’’ to help feed his followers. The major consumers of vegetables from the sea today are the Chinese and the Japanese, who appreciate this nutritious food which can be very tasty when properly prepared.

High in minerals and proteins, low in calories, sea vegetables have always been valued for their rejuvenating and purifying properties. They can be combined with other whole foods to from the basis of a very healthy balanced diet. Today in Ireland the main market is in health food stores. In Waterford, Dillisk & Carrageen Moss are still used in some traditional local dishes

The Four Rivers Slow Food Convivium in cooperation with the local community on the Copper Coast in Co. Waterford aims to rejuvenate this good food tradition.

The goals for the day are:

1. Demonstrate to the community and visitors how to make culinary use of the large variety of seaweeds & sea vegetables available on local beaches
2. Encourage chefs to create a range of local dishes making the best use of all the marine resources about them
3. Enjoy great tasting, nutritious, natural, foods, packed with healthy minerals and vitamins

Programme:
10.30 a.m. Introduction to sea vegetables and edible seaweeds, followed by foraging on the beach at Kilfarassey at low tide – Dr Rhatigan of the Irish Organic Centre

1 p.m.  Lunch on a wide variety of local tasty sea vegetable dishes followed by a cookery demonstration.

7.30 p.m. Seafood Banquet,Location: Copper Coast Bistro, Seaview Celtic, Annestown, Co Waterford

Book early to avoid disappointment as seating for the banquet is limited.

Enquires from Margaret Cosgrave at 051-396686

Fee: €60 includes lunch & Seminar
Banquet: €30
Email: margaretATcoppercoastgeopark.com
See: www.slowfoodireland.com & www.coppercoastgeopark.com