Declan Ryan-Managing Director, Ryan’s Arbutus Bread.

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    • 2017 Presentation

  I trained for Hotel Management in Hendon in London, but was relegated to the kitchen when I came home. I gained Ireland’s first Michelin star in 74’ at Arbutus Lodge Hotel in Cork and again at Cashel Palace in 81’.

  I retired from the hotel Business in 99’ and set up a retirement project of a tiny craft bakery in a two-car garage.  This has grown quite a bit as now we have 19 employees, 5 five vans and national distribution of our par baked frozen breads.

  Presentation  Title:          Because we need the Dough

  Synopsis:

   

  1. History of Arbutus Lodge
  2. Bread as a hobby books I found helpful- Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain, James Beard, Charles Van Ove,
  3. Bread fashions – influences Darina Allen, Frank Riordan, Xavier honorin, Pierre Nory.
  4. Nutrition and Bread
  5. Sourdough and real bread Ireland
  6. The next generation

   

 

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