Mella began making fudge for a local sweet shop in Bantry when she was in school. Fifteen years later, having worked in a variety of different spheres, she decided to set up her own business making fudge. Initially she started a stall in Bantry's Friday Market, and began selling to Val Manning's Emporium in Ballylickey. Gradually her kitchen enterprise grew in scale and now she works from her own unit kitchen in Lisavaird Co-op, outside Clonakilty, West Cork.
    
     
    Contact me at: mella@mellasfudge.com    
         
         
 

Mella's fudge is available from:

    
     
IRELAND    
     
CORK    
     
Andrew's Centra, Church Road (opposite library), Bantry. 027-51247    
Ballymalloe Garden Cafe, Shanagarry, Co. Cork. 021-4646785    
Bantry House Cafe, Bantry.    
Cafe Horseshoe, Leap.    
Cinnamon Cottage, Rochestown, Cork City.    
Eco Harvest, Ballincollig, Co. Cork.    
Fehily's, Enniskeane, Co. Cork. 023-47173    
Field's Supervalu, Skibbereen.028-21400    
Hosford's Garden Centre, Bandon.    
Joup, The English Market, Cork City.    
Joup, Ballinlough, Cork City. 021-4322626    
Lettercollum Kitchen Project, Clonakilty. 023-36938    
Manning's Emporium, Ballylickey. 027-50456    
Quay Food Company, Kinsale. 021-4774000    
Summersalt, Ballydehob.    
Taste, Castletownbere. 027-71842    
Thompson's Farm Shop, Carrigaline.    
Urru Culinary Store, Bandon. 023-54731    
Urru Culinary Store, Mallow. 022-53192    
Veggie Thoughts, Macroom. 026-43940    
The West Cork Gourmet Store, Schull. 028-27613    
     
DUBLIN    
Caviston's Food Emporium, 59 Glasthule Road, Glasthule, Co. Dublin 01-2809245    
Morton's, 15-17 Dunville Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin 6. 01-4971913    
Sheridan's Cheesemongers, South Anne St., Dublin 2. 01-6793143    
Sheridan's Cheesemongers, 7 Pembroke Lane, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. 01-6608231    

Simply Delicious, Foxrock Ave, Foxrock, Dublin 18.

   
Fallon & Byrne, 11-17 Exchequer St., Dublin 2. 01-4721000    
     
GALWAY    
Sheridan's Cheesemongers, 16 Church Yard St., Galway. 091-564829    
     
SLIGO    
Kate's Kitchen, 3 Castle St., Sligo. 071-9143022    
     
WATERFORD    
Ardkeen Quality Foodstore, Dunmore Road, Waterford. 051-874620    
     
     
U.K.    
LONDON    
Sheridan's Cheesemongers, Exmouth Farmer's Market, Clerkenwell, London.    
(Fridays and Saturdays)    
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
  'Fudge is a difficult product to master, with many fudge makers erring on the side of sweetness and, thereby, sickliness. Mella errs on the right side of sweetness, so her four fudges - vanilla, rum 'n' raisin, chocolate, and walnut - are pure swooshes of buttery goodness and energy without a David Lynch-style sugar jag following through at the end. Beautiful fudges, beautifully made and packaged, and a real treat as a gift. For yourself. Because you're worth it.' John and Sally McKenna, The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide, 2007.