Wood Fire Cooking with Gill Meller

As part of the Taste the Island, Gill Meller will return to The Green Barn at Burtown House in Athy to work with head chef Rodrigo Gonzalez and his team of chefs to cook an amazing day of wood fired food.

Wood Fire Cooking with Gill Meller

Burtown House & GardensAthy


Event Details

  • Sat 2 Nov  2019
  • 12.30pm

  • Cost: €75.00 plus eventbrite fees

  • Venue Details
    Burtown House & Gardens

    Dublin Road
    Athy


  • 059 8623148
  • info@burtownhouse.ie
  • www.burtownhouse.ie


This autumn, Discover Ireland are throwing open the doors to a food and drink celebration throughout the island of Ireland. Taste the Island will showcase the very best of Ireland’s food and drink culture. That means everything from restaurants and local craft food and drink producers to festivals and food trails and everything in between.

Get to the heart of Ireland’s culinary scene by meeting the people behind Ireland’s incredible food and drink. Find out more about the craft and how the soil-to-service journey happens, explore regional specialities or follow on one of many fascinating food trails around the country.

As part of the Taste the Island, Gill Meller will return toThe Green Barn at Burtown House in Athy to work with head chef Rodrigo Gonzalez and his team of chefs to cook an amazing day of wood fired food.

Using only the bounty of the gardens, tunnels & hedge groves with our organic Dexter cows from our fields, the day will consist of wood-fired ovens, pits and spits being used to cook an incredible wood-fired feast.

Guests will gather in a special part of the Burtown house gardens for an Autumnal Outdoor cookery demonstration. This will include watching part of the evenings’ feast of local lamb and organic vegetables from the gardens, placed into an earth oven and cooked below the ground for several hours before being unearthed later that evening and brought to the table.

Cooking in the earth is a technique that has been practiced in different ways and by different cultures for many thousands of years. The most famous earth ovens – or pit ovens, as they’re also known – are those of the Ma?????ori people of New Zealand. and evolved from an even older Polynesian tradition. Earth ovens, called ha?????ngi, remain a part of Ma?????ori culture today; they are a simple and effective way to cook both large and smaller quantities of food. Guests will gather at the earth oven again later on for mulled cider, a fire-based pre-dinner snack and the unearthing of the feast, always an exciting part of the process.

There will be three fire cooking stations, below ground as mentioned, a fire pit above ground and a rustic log fire.

During the afternoon Gill, Rodrigo, and Dermot Carey - head gardener will take guests to the kitchen garden and polytunnels to gather herbs, flowers & veg which the kitchen team will prep in the open plan kitchen, allowing for conversation and interaction between the chefs and our guests.

Dinner, which you will have witnessed being prepared throughout the day will be served at roughly 7pm, family-style on long tables with sharing platters.

This will be an incredible day, not to be missed.



Wood Fire Cooking with Gill Meller at The Green Barn in Athy

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