Post by Ismail AbdulAzeez on Jul 21, 2013 21:34:17 GMT 1
EVER tried the French dish of escargot or snails on your holidays?
It sounds like the ultimate taste of France — but the snails could be just as Irish as you are.
Incredibly, around TEN TONNES of Irish snails are being exported to Italy and France this year to meet the shortfall in world supplies.
And they all come from the Carlow farm of Eva Milka.
The Polish native, who has been living in Ireland since 2006, started up her business last year and now has 900,000 baby snails slithering around on her farm.
She revealed: “My partner and I are food lovers. I remember going on a trip to France a few years back where we tried the escargot for the first time.
“We loved it but when we came home we discovered we couldn’t buy them fresh here.
“We also discovered there was a shortage so we decided to start breeding them. We started off in our one-bedroom apartment.
“But then we found a suitable premises last May and imported 21,000 snails as breeding stock.”
Now food lovers in France and Italy can’t get enough of the delicacy and find themselves eating a continental-style dish with a distinctly Irish flavour.
Eva added: “Snails are treated as a pest here, but contain nearly all the amino acids needed for the human body.
“There’s potentially very little waste as snail slime is used in facial creams.”
Source: www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/5026087/Shells-to-sea-Irish-farm-sells-French-10-TONNES-of-snails.html
It sounds like the ultimate taste of France — but the snails could be just as Irish as you are.
Incredibly, around TEN TONNES of Irish snails are being exported to Italy and France this year to meet the shortfall in world supplies.
And they all come from the Carlow farm of Eva Milka.
The Polish native, who has been living in Ireland since 2006, started up her business last year and now has 900,000 baby snails slithering around on her farm.
She revealed: “My partner and I are food lovers. I remember going on a trip to France a few years back where we tried the escargot for the first time.
“We loved it but when we came home we discovered we couldn’t buy them fresh here.
“We also discovered there was a shortage so we decided to start breeding them. We started off in our one-bedroom apartment.
“But then we found a suitable premises last May and imported 21,000 snails as breeding stock.”
Now food lovers in France and Italy can’t get enough of the delicacy and find themselves eating a continental-style dish with a distinctly Irish flavour.
Eva added: “Snails are treated as a pest here, but contain nearly all the amino acids needed for the human body.
“There’s potentially very little waste as snail slime is used in facial creams.”
Source: www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepage/news/5026087/Shells-to-sea-Irish-farm-sells-French-10-TONNES-of-snails.html
