Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
You know you’re properly grown up (or getting old) when there’s a cousins’ get together – with no Mammys or aunts present. One of my Malaysian cousins recently moved to Ireland and he brought...
This is my sustainability story, a story about building a local sustainable food economy, as told at the first She Is Sustainable: Cork conference.
When Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, the couple behind London restaurant Honey & Co were coming to Ballymaloe Litfest in 2015, I took their first book – Honey & Co: The Cookbook – out...
Raw milk cheese from Counties Down and Cork. A goat farm in Antrim. Organic spelt berries grown in Louth. Rare apple ice wine made from Cork apples. A Dublin-based coffee organisation. A Cork-based charity...
Back in 2010, Kristin Jensen of Edible Ireland and I started working together to set up the Irish Food Bloggers Association. It was a time when the world of food blogging in Ireland was...
With two girls attending the local primary school, requests for baking turn up at regular intervals during the year: fundraising cake sales, grandparents’ day gatherings, coffee mornings for the new junior infants intakes. While...
Food for Friends / Storecupboard Specials
by Caroline · Published January 15, 2019 · Last modified February 1, 2021
On New Year’s Day, we had a bean feast. Now, while I’d like to say that this was because of the Italian tradition of eating lentils for the New Year to bring wealth and...
It takes a family to build a gingerbread house. The Little Sister has to arrive unexpectedly from New Zealand to surprise a pair of small girls, sticking around to help them push the gingerbread...
