Sharon Noonan
Best Possible Taste with Sharon Noonan
Food and Drink Podcast with Sharon Noonan. Ireland's longest-running food and drink podcast airing since 2013.Some people like to blog, Sharon Noonan likes to interview! In 2013 her food and drink show, Best Possible Taste, premiered on West Limerick 102FM and entertained listeners for 11 years up until October 2024. Sharon continues to interview guests from the food and drink scene in Ireland and beyond for the podcast. From restaurant reviews to discussing current affairs issues affecting the hospitality industry to hearing a famous family recipe to enjoying an award winning artisan product,...
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Sharon Noonan
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Jun 14, 2026
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Episodes
3 September 2019 04.09.2019 45:03
This week's Best Possible Taste visits Donegal for an inspirational tour of the county thanks to Eurotoques Ireland, Donegal Food Tours and LEO.We visit delis, cafes, restaurants and producers. Tune in to hear about the Counter Deli in Letterkenny and some of the products stocked including Shine's Tuna, Meadow Sweet Tea, and a wheatgrass drink. We then hop on the Donegal Food Tour bus and head to...
4 June 2019 14.06.2019 45:08
In this episode of Best Possible Taste we visit Bloom in Dublin's Phoenix Park and check out gardens by Bloom, UCD and Healthy Ireland. Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
28 May 2019 29.05.2019 45:36
On this episode of Best Possible Taste Sharon Noonan travels to Co Mayo to check out the Gourmet Greenway and talks to founder and Mulranny Park Hotel GM Dermot Madigan and meets Medbh O Malley from Achill Sea Salt. There's also a return visit to Co Clare to the Burren Slow Food Festival to hear from Brian Donnelly of Bia Rebel Ramen fame. Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and...
14 May 2019 18.05.2019 55:05
14 May 2019 by Sharon Noonan Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
5 March 2019 09.05.2019 30:58
Sharon Noonan visits Bally Goats' Cheese to meet Seamus Leahy and Ciara Brennan from Happy Food at Home provides inspiration for planted based dishes. Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
23 April 2019 23.04.2019 39:52
Sharon is in the award winning Mustard Seed in Ballingarry, Co Limerick to meet with Bridget Bray founder of Fare Plate which places the spotlight on food and drink stories from Ireland and Lorraine O Dwyer from Gallivanting Tours shares her blog post "Food Festivals in Ancient Ireland." Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, vis...
16 April 2019 17.04.2019 38:23
West Limerick Resources' Caitriona Scully shares details about the West Limerick Food Destination Programme and Manuela Spinelli provides an insight into the Eurotoques Food Awards. Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
BPT 26 March 2019 16.04.2019 42:10
This episode of the Best Possible Taste shines a light on 2 upcoming food festivals. Sharon travels to the Kingdom to meet David Scott and Noel Keane to find out about the 2019 Tralee Food Festival and Caroline Senior, CEO, West Waterford Festival of Food is on the phone with details about this year's programme. Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more epis...
BPT 19 March 2019 25.03.2019 43:28
In this episode chair of the Irish Food Writers' Guild has details about the winners of their annual food awards and Rosemarie Bennis from Sonas Healthfood Store explains the implications that the plan to impose 23% VAT on food supplements will have when it is introduced later this year. Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, vis...
19 February 2019 20.02.2019 26:48
19 February 2019 by Sharon Noonan Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
12 February 2019 14.02.2019 45:49
In this episode of Best Possible Taste Sharon Noonan is in Tralee, Co Kerry to meet chef Gorka Arrieta and Taste Kerry's John Harty to find out about the All Ireland Tapas and Pintxo Championships We also meet artist and former Kerry Rose, Rebekah Wall, in the wonderful creative hub and coffee shop, Maddens on Milk Market Lane in Tralee. And for the (romantic) week that's in it, we delve into the...
5 February 2019 06.02.2019 35:41
In this week's Best Possible Taste we hear from Ali Dunworth , food consultant, cook and creative who has worked behind the scenes on lots of well know cookery and food programmes at home such as Operation Transformation and What are you Eating and across the water on Market Kitchen and Nigella Feasts. There is also a quick chat with JP McMahon founder/director of Food on the Edge which returns to...
BPT 22 January 2019 24.01.2019 28:44
On this episode of Best Possible Taste we meet Kylie Woodham from Magners Farm in Fethard, Co Tipperary to find out about her food business which accounts an award winning bone broth as one of its products. And 7 year old Hannah Noonan telsl us all about Food Dudes, an award winning curriculum-linked evidence-based healthy eating programme which she enjoyed last week at her school Scoil Iosaf in N...
8 January 2019 08.01.2019 56:05
At the start of 2019, we recall some of our favourite interviews from 2018 with a guest co-presenter, Hannah Noonan. We return to Food on the Edge where we talked to How to Eat a Peach author, Diana Henry. We enjoy a visit to the world's most famous department store, Harrods, to meet Ann Dunne, Head of Product Development and find out about the newly refurbished food hall and finally we are aboard...
18 December 2018 19.12.2018 35:04
18 December 2018 by Sharon Noonan Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
11 December 2018 11.12.2018 42:46
In this episode of Best Possible Taste we are immersed in the festive season with a visit to One Pery Square in Limerick City to enjoy the Christmas decor. Ciara Brennan from Happy Food At Home updates us on her vegan food story and Rosemarie Bennis from Sonas Healthfoods shop in the heart of Newcastle West, Co Limerick has some great Christmas gift inspiration. Best Possible Taste is sponsored by...
4 December 2018 05.12.2018 50:32
For this episode of Best Possible Taste Sharon Noonan travelled to London. During her trip she met Rosalind Rathouse at London's most sustainable Cookery School and visited the Fresh Market Hall at the world's most famous department store, Harrodsand met with Ann Dunne, Head of Product Development to find out more about its recent monumental refurbishment. Best Possible Taste is sponsored by TheTa...
20 November 2018 22.11.2018 40:54
In this second helpings episode of Best Possible Tastes liquid refreshments take centre stage. First up it's a visit to Attfylin Estate on the outskirts of Limerick city where we meet General manager Paul Mordaunt. Later in the programme we remember the advice about ordering wine in a restaurant that BPT resident wine guru Ron Forrestal shared in November 2017.Best Possible Taste is sponsored by T...
13 November 2018 13.11.2018 43:01
On this episode of Best Possible Taste we meet Pat O Sullivan from Masterchefs Hospitality, one of Irelands leading corporate and events catering companies, at his latest brainchild, Copia Green, an innovative health driven, flavour focused eatery in Castletroy, Limerick and later in the programme a trio of GMIT students share details about the different initiatives they are involved in which incl...
6 November 2018 06.11.2018 42:52
6 November 2018 by Sharon Noonan Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
23 October 2018 27.10.2018 34:02
In this episode of the Best Possible Taste, we meet young entrepreneur Eoin Sheehan to find out about his business Country Munch and Ger Mulally, chair of Savour Kilkenny, has details about this year's food festival. Best Possible Taste is sponsored by TheTaste.ie Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com...
16 October 2018 17.10.2018 47:25
In this week's Best Possible Taste good quality ingredients from Ireland are in the spotlight thanks to a visit to the Urban Co-op's new premises in Limerick and award winning chef and Food on the Edge Symposium Director, Jp McMahon, has details about this year's Food on the Edge which takes place in Galway on Monday 22nd and Tuesday 23rd October 2018.Best Possible Taste is sponsored by TheTaste.i...
9 October 2018 11.10.2018 29:02
On this week's Best Possible Taste to celebrate 3 restaurants in Cork being awarded coveted Michelin stars we are going into the archives to play an from September 2016 with Rebecca Burr, director of the Michelin Guide GB and Ireland and Rebecca Steele and Dolores Prendeville about their new venture at Holly Tree Cottage in Newcastle West Co Limerick. Best Possible Taste is sponsored by TheTaste.i...
BPT 25 September 2018 26.09.2018 47:19
In this Best Possible Taste we delve into the archives to talk about wines from New Zealand and Argentina with our resident wine guru Ron Forrestal. A visit to Mitchelstown in Co Cork reveals links to farming in West Limerick during a conversation with Pat Mulcahy of Ballinwillin House Farm the only combined farmed organic venison, wild boar and goat farm in Ireland which now and Aisling Moore hea...
18 September 2018 21.09.2018 47:58
18 September 2018 by Sharon Noonan Best Possible Taste is Ireland's longest running food and drink podcast. For more episodes and information, visit www.sharonnoonan.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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