Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Adventurous, curious and passionate about food, Allegra McEvedy comes across as someone who would be a fantastic travelling companion. Apart from the fact that, due to her obsession with collecting knives, she must spend...
Catherine’s Family Kitchen landed in my own kitchen at a rather busy time. What with painting the newly renovated cottage, moving into it and the arrival of the Small Girl, this review got a...
For me, it’s all about the tart. The Raspberry Macaroon Tart to be precise. When I interviewed Lilly Higgins for a package about underground dining in Ireland for Lyric fm I visited her cosy...
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by Caroline · Published October 14, 2011 · Last modified October 4, 2016
If you’re a cheese fan, watch out for the forthcoming Farmhouse Cheese and Craft Beer Weekend which is taking place across the country during the October Bank Holiday weekend. There is more information on the events...
Tim Wilson started off keeping a few rare breed pigs; 15 years later he heads up a successful business with four busy London butcher’s shops, under the name The Ginger Pig, which are supplied...
For years, Belfast-born Trish Deseine was probably better known in her adopted country of France than over here, winning many plaudits for books like Je Veux du Chocolate (well worth picking up online) and...
I love Kiwi cookbooks and, with the Husband’s family feeling that birthdays and Christmas should be marked with new volumes, am lucky enough to have quite a few on my shelves. These books, from...
The books in Penguin’s Great Food series might be small but they’re perfectly formed. For these slim little pocket – or handbag – volumes, the publishing house chose twenty writers from a variety of...
