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Wicklow food expert shares passion for local delicacies and her ideal Garden County feast
County is tops for taste, says Enniskerry gourmet
Wicklow People
Santina Kennedy wants to talk about one thing and one thing only. Food. She speaks of food experiences the way that meteorologists talk about weather events. She makes heroes of food producers. She loves good food that comes with a good story. Santina really should have been born in France.
The French have a way of promoting their local ingredients, each region trumpeting its particular product or insisting that visitors taste the parish specialty. Go to Britanny for the artichokes, or to Burgundy for the mustard, or to Ile de Ré for the oysters, and so on. Food features hugely on the French road signs. The French have a restaurant culture where we Irish have a pub culture.
