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Sleeve Notes

November 3, 2008
11:46 AM

There is an American/Irish band called Legacy which specialises in Irish Traditional music.
With my old friend Jim Flanagan, they have issued a CD called An Irish Christmas, Music and Songs from West Cork.
I am intrigued to have just discovered that that on the sleeve notes for the song Steampai
I actually get a royal mention!

Voila:

15. Amhrán an Steampaí [Song] (Song of the Steampaí). Having failed to find any reference to this, obviously wonderful, dish in either Theodora Fitzgibbon’s Traditional Foods of Ireland or Darina Allen’s Traditional Irish cooking, Jim turned to his friend from college days at U.C.C., former owner and chef at Dwyer’s of Mary Street, Waterford, and now consultant chef Martin Dwyer. Martin rejected Jim’s initial possibility that ‘steampaí’ might be related to the British Naval/Jamaican dish called Stamp and Go, and went ploughing through his collection of Irish/English and English/Irish dictionaries and his vast gastronomic library to establish a connection to Boxty and to Sweet Potato Bread. The entire story, and a recipe for Steampaí Uí Fhlannagáin (Flanagan’s Steampaí) can be found on Martin’s Blog of November 5, 2007 (www.martindwyer.com) and on Jim’s website (www.flanagansongs.com)

Pretty cool eh!

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