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Loughnanes of Galway has taken home a total of 19 prestigious awards across various culinary competitions this year.

It is official: black pudding has been declared a superfood for 2016, joining seaweed, black beans, avocado oil and birch water on the list.

Clare Island has a real treat in store for foodies. As part of its Seafood Festival, which lauches today (Friday) and continues until Sunday August 24, Tamasin Day Lewis (sister of Daniel Day Lewis) will run three cookery sessions on the island.

Finnerty’s butchers, which is located on the ground floor of the Eyre Square Shopping Centre and in Oughterard, has just scooped a top award at the All Ireland Craft Butcher Product competitions. It won supreme champion in the sausages and puddings section, quite an achievement when you think that there are about 500 butchers in the association and about 300 in the competition. Nevin Maguire was the main judge at the event so we can assume that the winners were all pretty impressive. I had often passed by the shop but never shopped there, so I decided to call in and try some of the award winning products. The main shop is in Oughterard and it has been supplying locally sourced meat for the last 50 years and supplies many of the main Connemara hotels like the Abbeyglen, Renvyle House, and Cashel House.

While most of us will be readying ourselves for the tried and tested turkey/ham/spuds Christmas Day combination, there are now more alternatives available in Galway than ever before. Our markets – both the St Nicholas' weekly market and the 'Christkindlmarkt' in Eyre Square – our restaurants and food emporiums now offer a broad array of options for those of us not brimming over with joie de vivre at the prospect of a week of heavy duty turkey consumption.

Good food and celebrations came together in Newport this week when Kelly’s Butchers in the town was recognised as an international producer of award-winning black pudding.

On Monday September 20 a food festival will take place in Newport from 11am.

Late last year McGrath butchers in Plunkett Avenue, Mervue was destroyed by fire and as it was near Christmas they knuckled down to get it refurbished and ready for the big Christmas trade, a good plan you might say. However all the good work was destroyed when another fire broke out and gutted the shop once more.

Cherry on Top , who are celebrating one year in business in Castlebar, specialise in special occasion cakes as well as tasty treats including tarts, scones and bread, and are now taking orders for Christmas—puddings, trifles, mince pies and Christmas cakes.

Belvedere House will host its annual Food and Design Winter Fair this weekend (November 21-23) and admission for the duration of the weekend is free to all.