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For many people, Val Manning's Emporium is synonymous with the spirit that is West Cork. Sociable, choice, creative, it is a shop where you can loiter for hours, chatting, discovering, selecting. The shop really only blooms into its best in the summer, when the organic vegetables are at their best, the cheeses are at their best, and indeed, everything is at its best....

It is a nifty little tuck-box of a shop, Natural Foods. Everything they have here is a delightful, special treat, with their own breads and cakes chief amongst them: the famous cherry buns; the soft pitta pouches; the apricot bakes; the fine sourdough loaves. The shelves are lined with special things: the bags of good foods such as macroom Oatmeal; Maldon salt; Puy lentils; the bunches of vegetables brought in by Joe Eats Organic; the farmhouse cheeses. This atmosphere of fun and thi...