Irish food gets all dressed up

Appropriately, Tara McCarthy’s office is crammed with food. As senior manager of Bord Bia’s consumer foods division (which commands about a third of the food agency’s annual €30 million budget), McCarthy’s job requires her to keep up with trends in packaging at home and abroad.

Piled up in her office are packaged foodstuffs from all sorts of places. Some of it is well past its sell-by-date and is - to the eye as ...