Below, five of the many trailblazing women who merit your attention at this year's Taste of Dublin.
Taste of Dublin takes place over five days from September 1st to 5th at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens, and this year’s schedule features a stellar array of women who are changing conversations in Ireland’s food industry.
Starting with chef and author Rachel Allen, who will open Taste of Dublin on Wednesday, September 5th, the lineup is almost 50 per cent female.
So, who’s worth watching, and what can you learn? Here, we select four of the many trailblazing women who merit your attention at Taste of Dublin.
Lily Ramirez Foran
Meet a woman on a mission to change how we think about Mexican food. Lily Ramirez-Foran is the owner of grocery and cookery school Picado Mexican in Dublin’s Portobello, and a busy writer whose first cookbook, Tacos is due for release next spring. Based in Ireland for twenty years, word of Ramirez Foran’s magical Mexican cooking has spread far and wide, with Picado Mexican being featured in the legendary food documentary ‘F*ck That’s Delicious’ with VICELAND in March.
You can sample a little of what makes Lily Ramirez Foran so magnetic when she takes to the Taste Theatre stage at 4pm on Sunday September 5 - book the 3.45pm - 6.45pm session here.
Ellie Kisyombe
Based on a shared belief that Direct Provision is a deeply flawed system, Ellie Kisyombe founded the non-profit organisation Our Table with food writer Michelle Dermody. Our Table aims to develop people’s existing culinary skills to give them the confidence, support, and practical experience necessary to start their own food businesses or gain employment. The social enterprise also aims to preserve and celebrate authentic recipes from diverse cultural heritages.
At Taste of Dublin 2021, Ellie and her inspirational team from Our Table will be showcasing and selling a selection of products including worldwide inspired hot sauces, hummus and much more, and across the five days of the festival. Find out more on ourtable.ie.
Trisha Lewis
Weary of the same lose-weight waffle? You’re not alone. Trisha Lewis is a professional chef who has blended humour, humility and plain nutritional sense to document her significant weight loss success. Boasting over 200k Instagram followers, Lewis has penned two books, Trisha’s Transformation and The 21-Day Reset, and continues to spread her ‘lose weight, not flavour’ mantra and her recipes with a growing army of fans.
Trisha will speak on the main Taste Theatre stage at 4pm on Saturday September 4th - book the 3.30pm - 6.30pm session here.
Aoife Noonan
Dream job? Aoife Noonan’s done it, and picked up the awards to match. Formely the head pastry chef at the two-Michelin starred Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud in Dublin, Noonan has previously won our Pastry Chef of the Year Award at the annual FOOD&WINE Awards and also won the internationally renowned Valrhona Patisserie Championship. Put simply, Noonan knows how to make a dessert that sings.
You can enjoy her patisserie workshop at Taste of Dublin at 12.45pm on Sunday, September 5th - book the 12pm - 3pm session here.
And don’t miss…
Kildare-bred, Dublin-based content creator Niamh O’Sullivan, who gets fired up about food, sustainability, style and travel. Niamh is partnering up with Dyson to demonstrate how cooking certain foods can affect air quality in the home, and will beusing some nifty Dyson gadgets to combat those effects. She’ll also serve as a judge for the Dyson Style Afternoon on Friday, September 3rd, where she’ll be joined by Irish Tatler editor Jessie Collins in the search for Taste’s best dressed man or woman. The judges’ scouting session will take place from 12-3pm, with the overall winner set to bag a Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, a Dyson Airwrap hair styler and a Dyson Corrale hair straightener (check out Irish Tatler's review of the Corrale here).
Book your tickets for the Friday September 3rd 12pm - 4pm session here.
Taste of Dublin takes place at the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin from Wednesday, September 1st to September 5th. For all the details, booking, and more info on appearances by super female chefs, including Grainne Mullins and Nicola Curran Zammit, see tasteofdublin.ie.
This article was originally published on our sister site Irish Tatler.
Brought to you in association with Taste of Dublin
