The joy (and soft power) of Irish butter TheJournal.ie [Video]

IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair.

We’ve hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour.

1. I can’t believe it’s our butter

Kerrygold butter. Alamy Stock Photo Alamy Stock Photo

Ana Kinsella writes about the wonders of Irish butter and its contribution to the country’s soft power.

(Vittles, approx 13 mins reading time)

For the twelve years I lived in London, I kept a list of foods I missed from home, a catalogue of groceries into which all my feelings of displacement could be channelled. Among all the items on the list, Kerrygold had an almost totemic significance, even though it was widely available in London, and not just in specialist stores or big supermarkets. During moments of homesickness, digging into the Irish butter in my North London kitchen almost felt like going home and touching grass, the green, rain-soaked land manifesting in …