Kate Ryan

Kate Ryan is a multi-award-winning food writer and founder of Flavour.ie, a platform dedicated to promoting Irish Food. As a freelance food features writer, her writings on the intersections of food, drink, travel, sustainability and culture appear regularly in The Irish Examiner, The Echo and Business Post newspapers. Her work has also featured with BBC, Vittles, Food & Wine Magazine (Ireland) and Scoop Food Magazine, among others. She also writes on her Substack, “Peckish Times” and is a member of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild.

Kate holds an MA in Food Studies and Irish Foodways and a Postgraduate Diploma in Irish Food Culture. She has published papers with Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery and Dublin Gastronomy Symposium on the disappearing blood as food traditions of Ireland.

Her awards include Sustainability Journalist of the Year in the Local Ireland Media Awards in 2024, and in 2023 was named Blas na hÉireann Irish Food Producers Champion and bestowed the inaugural award for Food Storyteller of the Year by Listowel Food Fair. In 2022, she was awarded an Irish Food Writing Award for the Food Writing category. She is a food judge of many years standing with Blas na hÉireann, Great Taste Awards, Irish Quality Food Awards, National Dairy Awards and Restaurant of the Year Awards.

In 2017, she published “A Taste of West Cork - Artisan Food Guide” and contributed the central chapter to COOK by Graham Herterich (2024).

Originally from Bristol (UK), Kate has lived in West Cork - the beating heart of Irish artisan food scene – for the past two decades. When not writing about blood and food, she can be found at The Haggart, a scrappy acre of land she and her husband are slowly transforming into a market garden.