Michelle founded internationally acclaimed bakeries The Cake Café and Slice. She established Our Table, a social enterprise supporting people living in direct provision. Michelle’s extensive knowledge of the sustainability and food landscape also stems from the creation of large-scale events tackling climate change through food, such as Eat the Streets, for Dublin City Council and Summer Rising, for IMMA.  

  

Over the past few years Michelle has been using her expertise to inspire and motivate organisations to meet their ESG goals through staff ideation workshops and motivational talks.   

  

Michelle is not only a regular commentator for Irish media, her work has also featured in international publications, such as Vogue, Condé Nast Travel and Leisure, and Time Magazine. She has judged MasterChef and been featured on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations and the Food Network in the US.   

 

Michelle Darmody

Award-winning writer, Sustainability Consultant, Entrepreneur and Academic

Michelle Darmody's work brings together sustainability, food and creativity. She is currently putting the finishing touches to her second book and is completing a PhD, focusing on environmental education. Her research projects have won RETHINK Ireland Social Innovation funding, as well as the Community Food Initiative award.  She writes a writes a weekly column for The Irish Examiner. 

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Michelle founded internationally acclaimed bakeries The Cake Café and Slice. She established Our Table, a social enterprise supporting people living in direct provision. Michelle’s extensive knowledge of the sustainability and food landscape also stems from the creation of large-scale events tackling climate change through food, such as Eat the Streets, for Dublin City Council and Summer Rising, for IMMA.  

  

Over the past few years Michelle has been using her expertise to inspire and motivate organisations to meet their ESG goals through staff ideation workshops and motivational talks.   

  

Michelle is not only a regular commentator for Irish media, her work has also featured in international publications, such as Vogue, Condé Nast Travel and Leisure, and Time Magazine. She has judged MasterChef and been featured on Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations and the Food Network in the US.   

 

Michelle's expertise includes:

  • Inspiring staff to meet your Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals through creative ideation workshops
  • ​Specialising in improving the 'triple bottom line' throughout your organisation
  • Mapping your organisation's environmental footprint
  • ​Reimagining how children learn about food
  • Event production- Devising, creating and producing cultural and food events ​

“Thanks to Michelle Darmody Food and Biodiversity are now on the Education menu.” The Irish Examiner 

 

“Michelle Darmody, one of many inspiring women in Ireland today driving our country’s dynamic food scene towards a better future through supporting the local economy and a total investment of passion.” Image Magazine 

 

"Michelle Darmody has become a commanding presence in the Irish food world. She is restaurateur, entrepreneur, food writer, organiser, iconoclast, author, social media adept. If she isn't writing a piece for The Irish Examiner, she is opening a new restaurant. She has been at the centre of Dublin's creative food culture ever since the great Cake Café opened in 2006 but, in recent times, her profile as a Major Player has become unmissable. Best of all, she brings the wit of the art student to the business of food, so every detail adds richness. Would someone please give her a gig in the Government." John McKenna Bridgestone 

 

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