A taste of popular Irish food available in the US - PHOTOS

Something for everyone's palette in our round-up of whats on offer

PHOTOS - Popular Irish food products in the United States - slideshow

The green Island of Ireland has for centuries produced high quality food for Irish people. This food has been appreciated by distant onlookers for years; there is no need to admire these products from afar any more as they begin to emerge in our local stores and online around the U.S. Here is IrishCentral’s examples of high quality Irish food and drink products currently on the rise in the US.
 
1. Irish Burren Smokehouse Salmon

The Burren Smokehouse, a family-run business set up over twenty years ago by Birgitta & Peter Curtin is famous for its high quality organic and premium oak smoked Irish salmon. Located close to the worlds famous Burren in Co. Clare on the west coast of Ireland. Burren Smokehouse is renowned worldwide for their incredibly high quality salmon, which is smoked to perfection over oak shavings, for a mild, delicate flavour and melt in the mouth texture.

Burren Smokehouse has won various awards including “the great taste awards”, reinforcing their positioning as a premium high quality salmon. “Ireland is the source of some of the finest salmon in the world. We are now giving American consumers the opportunity to taste the great flavour of Burren Smokehouses artisanal oak smoked salmon” states Susan Weldon, US brand ambassador for Burren Smokehouse. “We are currently available in Dean & Deluca stores nationwide, or online at www.foodireland.com.”

Burren Smokehouse salmon is a perfect complement to a semi-soft cheese, why not try it with Kerrygolds Cashel Blue cheese, for more recipes ideas go online to www.burrensmokehouse.ie.

2. Kerrygold Cashel Blue Cheese

Developed in 1984, Cashel Blue is Ireland’s original artisan blue cheese and is the creation of the husband and wife team of Jane and Louis Grubb. The cheese is made entirely by hand on the Grubb family farm near Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland. This acclaimed cheese won gold at the World Cheese Awards in 2006 and 2010.

Like all Kerrygold dairy products, only milk from cows that graze on Ireland’s luxuriant pastures is used, and no artificial growth hormones are allowed. The majority of the milk used to make Cashel Blue comes from the pedigreed Friesian dairy herd on the farm. Cashel Blue is semi-soft and a voluptuously creamy cheese. It has a round, full flavor and slight blue tang. This cheese ages beautifully and the flavors become more pronounced over time.

Kerrygold Cashel Blue is perfect in a salad, on its own or introduced into a tasty dish. For more information on Kerrygold Cashel Blue, please visit www.kerrygoldusa.com or for further recipe ideas, please visit www.cashelbue.com.

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