Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Eating is a serious business for my New Zealand family. When 14 adults and six children decamp for a week to a not-exactly-close-to-a-supermarket beach house – known as a bach – it takes on...
2012 was the year of beer. And that year involved a hell of a lot of talking and tasting and discovering and cooking with Irish craft beer. There were beer tasting events and beer...
When all the baking and cooking and running around is done, finding a stack of cookbooks under the tree is one of my favourite things about Christmas. It’s also one of the few times of the...
This Christmas tart is a keeper. Just close your eyes and imagine: a base of crisp, short pastry, just enough alcoholic mincemeat to make you think Christmas, a layer of moist, almondy frangipane, all...
Part one of my Irish food gifts article for The Irish Times is here or, if you have a subscription, you can read the entire published version here. I’m always looking for small bits and...
If we all spend €4 more a week on Irish products we can create 6,000 more jobs. But who defines what an Irish product is? While you can spend a lot of time checking...
Take a venue – it doesn’t have to be a restaurant, but decent kitchens make a difference – a limited time span and some nomadic chefs. What have you got? A pop-up-restaurant-tastic November with...
