Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
An edited version of this feature was first published in the Irish Examiner on 15 September 2021. As the weather gets colder, our thoughts turn towards hearty meals but does comfort food need to...
Brussels sprouts: the mini cabbage that (almost) everyone loves to hate. Grown in Ireland and available everywhere at this time of the year, why is the world split into sprout lovers and haters?
Gingerbread dough recipe for Christmas baking.
My first taste of pumpkin pie was as part of a yoga-and-dinner deal at Govindas way back when I lived in New Zealand. I can’t believe that it’s taken me this long to make it for myself.
“Flowers brought us together,” laughs Attwell. “When I came down here Mags was the only person I knew and flowers brought us together. For me, West Cork is all about the flora. Even its symbol – the fuschia – is an edible flower. The things that grow here naturally are unreal, the produce, the flowers.”
Any opportunity to be together with friends and colleagues is special but after 18 long months of Zoom and emails and WhatsApp, last night’s Irish Food Writing Awards was a much anticipated gathering.
Half way through the morning, as tomato fondue bubbled on the cooker, chocolate egg nests set in a cooler part of the worktop and 11-year-old Little Missy shaped bunny pancakes on a hot frying pan, it hit me: online cooking classes with kids really do work.
How hard is it to be social after 18 months of being told to stay at home? How difficult is it to survive in the world of gastronomy after the whole carpet has been...
