History on a Plate is an innovative radio documentary series that takes real recipes from Irish food history and puts them back on the menu. The presenters are historian Juliana Adelman and Irish Times restaurant critic Catherine Cleary, while Irish Times food writer and chef Domini Kemp re-creates the long-lost recipes.
In this episode the presenters ask why many Irish people won’t eat eel. Are we missing out? And as for whale meat… don’t even go there.
The contributors to the programme are fisheries expert Christopher Moriarty, Anthony Creswell of the Ummera Smokehouse, Icelandic food writer Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir, chef Stephen Toman, Pat Close, Chairman of the Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Co-operative Society, and eel fishermen David and Richard McElroy. The reader is Doireann NíBhriain.
History on a Plate is written and presented by historian Dr Juliana Adelman and restaurant critic Catherine Cleary.
The programme is produced by Claire Cunningham. This is a Rockfinch production (www.rockfinch.ie) for RTÉ Radio 1.
History on a Plate is funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee.
RTÉ Radio One, Saturday 3 January, 2015, 7:30 pm
PHOTOs
Eels 1 – Chef Domini Kemp prepares an eel for cooking
Eels 2 – Eels being sorted at Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Co-operative Society