- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd (1 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0717145794
- ISBN-13: 978-0717145799
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.6 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,032,397 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the boom years, food became Flash Paddy's greatest status symbol. We loved to eat out, yet at the same time, the majority of us continued to throw a pre-cooked chicken and bagged salad into the trolley at the supermarket. Why? Why did food and where it came from matter so little? When did the nation that was married to the land lose its inner culchie? In our recent past food and eating were one of the ways in which we redefined ourselves. The spud went out the window. In came prosciutto and sushi. Irish cooking and Irish chefs flourished but the land it was produced on became something we didn't want to know about o wellies were for music festivals. Our connection with countryside and growing food disintegrated. We failed to relate what was on our plate to how we lived. This is the first book in Ireland to talk about where food really comes from, who decides what we buy and why what we eat says so much about us. It encompasses everything from take away pizza to Irish farmhouse cheese and everything in between: the land, the farmers, producers, suppliers and supermarkets. The authors argue that in our rush to become urban, cosmopolitan and economically progressive, we have forgotten about what we are really good at. Food and farming have been good servants to Ireland o they could be something that make us truly great. 'Basket Case' examines the seismic shifts taking place in this country and asks if we've lost touch with one of the few things we did better than everybody else. Can food, farming and finding our inner culchie save Flash Paddy from himself?
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Philip Boucher Hayes joined RTE in 1993. He is the Radio Investigative Unit reporter and presents the RTE 1 television series Buyer Beware. Suzanne Campbell produced and directed television programmes for RTE including the food and farming series Ear to the Ground. Through their work in television and radio Philip Boucher-Hayes and Suzanne Campbell have spent many years standing in rainy fields talking to farmers, looking at food labels and eating their way around the world. They live in North Wicklow with their young daughter.
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Not great. Mainly written in a poor pastiche of David McWilliams's style, the fairly interesting material on food and retail &c is swamped in pseudo-analysis of Irish economy and society. Not the book on Irish food that we have been waiting for.
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