If you’re foraging for foodie gift ideas this Christmas, then look no further than Gifted – The Contemporary Craft and Design Fair in the RDS where the Spectacular Christmas Food Emporium will tempt you back for second helpings!
Gifted, the traditional opening to the festive season in Dublin, is set to attract over 45,000people from December 5-9 to snap up the perfect gifts from 500 designers, makers and artisan food producers.
The Spectacular Christmas Food Emporium features over 100 artisan food producers, where you can meet the experts who can help you plan and source every aspect of your festive meal right up to the organic bronzed turkey.
Memories of holidays with his grandmother coupled with world travel inspired Gran Gran’s Foods, which offer a range of sauces, dressings and dips from as little as €3.25.
Nigel Murray and his wife Magaly cook using herbs and ingredients from their own vegetable patch and their gluten-free and vegan-friendly range is perfect for any Christmas table, including their Beetroot, red onion and ginger chutney, roasted red pepper, chili and tomato relish and steak sauce with cracked black pepper dip.
The award-winning Lismore Food Company will showcase their exciting brand new range of gluten-free premium snacks at Gifted which include air dried apple snacks which come either uncoated or dipped in milk or dark chocolate.
The three biscuiteers, Ken Madden, his brother Owen and his partner Beth-Ann Smith all come from varying backgrounds but have a combined family tradition of baking which goes back 200 years.
The Wild Irish Foragers and Preservers offer a taste of nostalgia for the festive season with their selection of preserves and syrups made from old, almost forgotten recipes of a bygone era.
The Greene family personally hand harvest wild rosehips, elderberries, damsons, elderflowers, gorse, rowanberries, sloes, spring nettles, blackberries, honeysuckle and more to make syrups, sauces, fruit cheeses, jellies, pontack and shrubs.
You can return to your childhood with products including Elderberry Syrup at €5.50, Rosehip Syrup at €7.50 or Rowanberry Savoury Pot for €4.50.
Christmas is all about calories but if you want your cake and eat it too, DrCoy’s Health Foods is your answer for fit treats that taste devilishly divine.
The Irish company is passionate about positive eating and a healthy lifestyle and promote natural foods which give us more energy.
DrCoy’s patented chocolate in various flavours is made using naturally derived good sugars and vitamin E which is high in fibre, gluten and lactose free and just €9 for a packet of five bars.
The range also consists of Chocolate covered almonds at €5.49, Festive Friends Orange Crisp Squares at €5.99 or make your own healthy foods with organic Coconut Flour for €5.90 or Organic Virgin Coconut Oil at €8.99.
The Spectacular Christmas Food Emporium is also the premium place to talk turkey with Hogan’s Farm Shop who produce over 80,000 turkeys each year near Kells, Co. Meath
Hogan’s have been rearing turkeys since 1962 and introduced the popular award-winning Charlesfort white and Traditional Free Range Woodland Bronze turkeys in recent years.
These flavoursome free range birds are allowed to roam freely in the woodland for six months, which mean they are some of the longest-reared turkeys in Ireland for Christmas.
There will be 10% off everything at Gifted on the opening day, Wednesday, December 5.
Gifted – The Contemporary Craft and Design Fair takes place at the RDS Main Hall from December 5-9 from 10am each day. Full details and booking can be found at www.giftedfair.ie
Image: Dandelion Flower Preserve is just some of the range from The Wild Irish Foragers & Preservers who can be found at Ireland’s largest festival of giving, Gifted Contemporary Craft and Design Fair, in the RDS from December 5-9