Vagabond Small Group Tours of Ireland Forages and Feasts on New Week-long Irish Food Adventure

This company's first themed experience, is no sleepy food demo, rather a fast-paced, seven-day program that navigates every twist and turn of Ireland's burgeoning food revolution.
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Irish bread and butter
Irish bread and butter
NEWTOWNMOUNTKENNEDY, Ireland - Feb. 7, 2019 - PRLog -- The story of Irish food is a winding road that one travel company in Ireland invites active foodies to explore.

Vagabond Small Group Tours of Ireland opens a window on a brand-new road trip that winds from meat and potatoes to Michelin stars and from the 19th century famine disaster to 21st century social gastronomy.

Epic Irish Food Adventure Tour, this company's first themed experience, is no sleepy food demo, rather a fast-paced, seven-day program that navigates every twist and turn of Ireland's burgeoning food revolution. The fun is baked in too on a circular tour out of Dublin that meets up with the Wild Atlantic Way and the Dingle Peninsula before turning east to Dublin. See: https://vagabondtoursofireland.com/tour/irish-food-tour-adventure/

Foraging and sourcing interspersed with cliff and beach walks introduce historic staples of the Irish diet. Restaurateur and thinker, JP McMahon, summed up this (foraging) approach in an interview with Zurich: "While we can't go back to a time where people only foraged, we can learn from it and bring that into the future."

This tour brings food and hospitality to guests who…

·         Learn the secrets of the ocean's superfood on a sea kayaking trip to forage Atlantic seaweed.

·         Toast this food odyssey with an Irish coffee like no other - brewed on the beach overlooking crashing waves.

·         Crack open fresh shellfish in sight of the pier where it was landed.

·         Savor the world's creamiest milk and best artisan cheeses from grass-fed cows. Ireland has an ancient tradition in dairy. Butter making was first introduced by the Celts in the 2nd century BC.

·         Enjoy Gaelic spoken by hosts serving Durrus and Cashel Blue cheeses, smoked and cured Gubbeen bacon, Clonakilty black pudding, fresh fish and grass-fed, organic Dexter beef from a farm guests visit.

·         Imagine mysterious pagan rituals at a Bronze Age monument with a fulacht fia, where prehistoric celebrity chefs cooked supper and brewed beer. (Think clam bake or luau.)

·         Shake hands with innovative food producers and chefs at secret, off-the-beaten path, gourmet destinations.

·         Chat up a 4th generation, female craft brewer at a century-old pub.

·         Sip mead (the world's oldest form of alcohol) at Ireland's only meadery and taste heritage Irish honeys.

·         Explore Ireland's hidden foodie haven, Kinsale, for seafood, pub grub and craic (fun and entertainment).

·         Feast and sleep in a genuine Irish castle hotel.

Also planned are stops at a traditional flour mill, at butter-making establishment and at a goat farm producing goat's milk soap.

Culinary experiences that may be new to guests include:

·         Pudding – No, it's not dessert! Served with a cooked Irish breakfast, it's a pork, herb and oat sausage with black and white versions (black is made with blood).

·         Elderflower – A hedgerow shrub used as a sweet cordial.

·         Drisheen – A tripe dish made of sheep's intestines filled with meal and blood.

·         Scones – Did you know that you can tell the religion of an Irishman by the way he pronounces this one little word? sk-own for Catholic, skon for Protestant.

·         Blaa – A fluffy white (blanc) baked roll, intrinsically linked with Waterford, Ireland's oldest city, and local French Huguenot influence.

·         Colcannon – A Halloween mix of mashed potato, cream or milk, kale and onion.

"The Epic Irish Food Adventure opens a window to Ireland's recent food renaissance. After years of underappreciation, local Irish produce has come to the fore, mixing with international influences to produce a distinctively Irish modern cuisine," says Rob Rankin, Vagabond Tours' Managing Director.

Three 2019 departures are May 19, June 16 and Sept. 8. The per person double rate is €1,999 (single supplement €315). Guests are free to choose on-own lunches and dinners. Dublin is the gateway city. Guests travel in a rugged Mercedes 'Vagatron' 4x4 mini-coach.

Vagabond Small Group Tours of Ireland offers two styles of culturally immersive travel. Vagabond Adventure Tours (https://vagabondtoursofireland.com/our-tours-of-ireland-2...) (the division hosting the Epic Irish Food Adventure Tour) are for active travellers who want to mix up hiking, kayaking and biking and other outdoor adventures with history, culture, dining and shopping. Driftwood Journeys of Discovery (https://vagabondtoursofireland.com/our-tours-of-ireland-2...) follow similar itineraries but at an intimate and in-depth looking and lingering pace, sans the physical exertion.

On all of its tours, Vagabond staff curate locally owned accommodations, pubs and restaurants that help serve their goal of authenticity. In the end the mission is to have guests "love Ireland as much as we do." Transport is in a custom Mercedes 'Vagatron' or special mini-buses which allow access beyond where regular tour buses go.

For details on all of Vagabond Small Group Tours of Ireland itineraries, availability and for 2019 reservations, please visit https://vagabondtoursofireland.com/. Call toll free (from the US) 1.833-230-0288; in Ireland 00353 (0) 1 5634358; or email: info@vagabond.ie.

About Vagabond Small Group Tours of Ireland

Since 2002 Vagabond Adventure Tours has been creating opportunities for visitors to embrace Ireland by walking, biking, horseback riding and kayaking its lands and waters, imbibing history and culture along the way. In 2013 the company was honored by National Geographic Traveler with a Top 50 Tour of a Lifetime distinction. In 2015 and 2017 Vagabond Small Group Tours of Ireland was named the "Best Adventure Experience" at the Irish Tourism Awards. In 2017, Vagabond became Ireland's first tour operator to achieve Ecotourism Gold Level Certification. In 2018, Vagabond Tours won The Green Tourism & Entertainment category in Ireland's most prestigious Green (business) Awards. And in February 2019, the company won two top Irish Tourism Industry Awards for the Best Ireland Ancient East Tourism Experience and Best Environmental Tourism Innovation.

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