Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Culture File on RTÉ Lyric FM / Radio / Work
6 Dec, 2010
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My Culture File report for Lyric fm on the Slow Food screening of Today’s Special during this year’s Cork Film Festival is now online and can be listened to here.
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27 Oct, 2010
Antique china teacups and linen tablecloths at the ready!My Culture File report on Miss Courtney’s Tearooms and a return to the gentle act of taking tea will be broadcast on Lyric fm 96-99fm this evening at approximately 6.40pm.
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9 Oct, 2010
There was a rich, savoury smell in the autumn air as a band marched down the crowded streets of Kanturk, leading a white and crimson velvet-gowned troup. The members of the Brotherhood of the Knights of the Black Pudding had travelled from France to pay tribute to the gold medal-winning black pudding of father and son butchers Jack and Tim McCarthy.
read moreThese turkeys have legs! After a call from a Newstalk researcher on Friday, I was on the Tom Dunne show yesterday morning, talking about keeping – and harvesting – turkeys for Christmas.
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4 May, 2010
Food Events / Foodtalk on Newstalk / Radio
3 May, 2010
Today’s the day when the results of the 2010 World Food Media Awards will be announced in Adelaide. Fingers crossed for Foodtalk: Spices and the other Irish nominees.
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16 Apr, 2010
After I recovered from the excitement of the Foodtalk: Spices nomination in the Best Food/Drink Radio Programme for this year’s Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards – it’s taken a while! – I found a few fellow Irish nominees on the list.
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12 Apr, 2010
There was big excitement at the cottage when I learned that Spices, one of the Foodtalk documentaries that I presented for Newstalk, is a nominee for the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards! These awards celebrate the very best in international food publishing and broadcasting. With a total of 700 entries across 21 categories, now whittled down to 181 nominations, it is a true honour to make it this far. Spices is nominated in the best food/drink radio programme category alongside six other programmes from Australia and America.
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