Chinese New Year begins next Sunday (February 14^th), and we at Silver Hill are getting ready to welcome the Year of the Tiger!

Dublin City Council launched the festivities last Friday with a Sino-Irish fashion exhibition (details of this and other New Year festivities here), and we are delighted to be involved with some of the initiatives too. This week I’ll be working with the chefs at the Chinese New Year banquet in Dublin zoo to prepare the duck menu in the authentic Chinese method. And today I’m off to do a tasting for the menu with the committee. It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it!!!

 James and I are also heading over to the New Year festivities in Manchester on Sunday to host a duck tasting session in Albert Square Market. It may be Valentine’s day but we’ll be with out first love anyway – duck!

 Our Silver Hill shop in Emyvale has been going really well too. It’s a stone’s throw from the farm and you can pick up all the Silver Hill goodies at factory prices, so pop in and say hi sometime!