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Almost everyone when asked about Irish food mentions two things -  Irish Stew and Corned Beef with cabbage. And almost every visitor to Ireland is surprised to find that neither features all that commonly on restaurant menus!

In fact corned beef is not traditionally Irish at all- but Bacon and Cabbage is.

Irish Stew

That isn´t to say that such dishes are no longer eaten, they are, but they are homely dishes, served to family, rather than ones which would be chosen on an evening out. And so their apparance on a restaurant menu is a rarity.

Most traditional Irish food use simple, basic and cheap ingridients, a reminder of the fact that they originated in a less affluent past. Many have been given a modern twists by a new generation of chefs or incorporated into dishes that better suit the tastes of a more widely.

    

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