Kilkenny was the deserving winner of this year’s Foodie Destination Award (organised by the Restaurants Association of Ireland) which is why Neven chose the city as his base for his two Christmas programmes this year. As well as the traditional favourites (turkey, lamb and ham), Neven demonstrates how to cook some interesting and stylish starters and visits two of the country’s best pastry chefs. As always, Neven’s recipes are crowd-pleasing dishes which are straightforward to make.