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JP McMahon has his fingers in many pies, not least a Dingle Pie. The prominent Irish chef is an ambassador for Irish food: both its produce (especially wild food such as foraged seaweed) and its food culture.
JP is co-owner and culinary director of Michelin-starred Aniar restaurant in his home town of Galway, where he also runs the Aniar Boutique Cookery School, and award-winning tapas restaurant Cava Bodega. He is the founder and current chair of the Galway Food Festival, and founder and host to one of the biggest international food events in Europe Food on the Edge.
He also counts painter and playwright among his talents. Author of The Irish Cookbook, JP is a regular contributor to the Irish Times, BBC radio, and RTE TV. JP is cooking up a wild food feast with produce from the Wairarapa with Logan Brown executive chef Shaun Coulston at Wellington on a Plate next month.
