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There is a chronic shortage of chefs in Ireland, restaurant owners say

This afternoon.

Via RTÉ news:

…Four in ten tourism and hospitality workers claiming the Pandemic Unemployment Payment did not return to their pre-pandemic employers, with many moving sectors and others returning to their home countries abroad.

“The pandemic has had a profound impact on the industry’s skill base, with a mass exodus of workers into other industries that reopened earlier,” said Paul Kelly, chief executive of Fáilte Ireland.

The issues are particularly acute among chefs, with 88% of employers reporting they are having “considerable difficulty” recruiting them.

Estimated 40,000 vacancies in tourism sector (RTE)

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An atmospheric short by Paris-based Insolence Productions contrasting the skill of professional chefs with the visceral majesty of raw ingredients and the brutal unrelenting pressures of work in a commercial kitchen.

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6a00d8341c5dea53ef0192abd08d65970d-piA new sock line by American chef and offal specialist, Chris Cosentino whose publicist sez:

Mr. Cosentino’s socks, called Meat Feet, are patterned like mortadella, prosciutto, and sopressata. ‘We put salami meat in a casing. Casings are kind of like socks,’ says Mr. Cosentino…. ‘How funny is that?’

Eh…

$33 for the ‘three-pack sampler’ above.

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Oliver Dunne, from Bon Appétit in Malahide, Dublin.

Ireland’s youngest Michelin-starred chef.

Oliver wants to hand back his star because it is intimidating customers.

And you thought you had problems.

Top Irish chef may hand back Michelin star, Lynne Kelleher (Irish Examiner)

Pic: Bonappetit.ie