Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Ard Bia at Nimmo’s is a small grey stone building, settled stolidly by Galway’s Spanish Arch. So far, so unprepossessing. But step inside that jaunty red door and you arrive in a rambling, welcoming...
Do / Food Events / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published August 24, 2012 · Last modified September 5, 2017
I’m doing a few Irish craft beer demos over the next couple of weekends with the Theatre of Food crew. This weekend I’m off to the Dublin Tall Ships festival with my partner-in-beer, Kristin...
Reading the stylish and useful Ard Bia Cookbook reminded me of meeting Aoibheann Mac Namara back in 2008. I was interviewing her for the Foodtalk series of documentaries for Newstalk: her son Oni – the book...
When the Blog Awards Ireland longlist was recently released, I was thrilled to discover Bibliocook nominated in three categories. I’m there in the food/drink category, the popculture list and, most astoundingly of all, in the...
I love pies – beef pies, chicken pies, spinach pies, I’ll take all comers! – but the single-crust sort I make normally falls firmly into the winter warmer category. Not so the traditional Kiwi...
Friday night: end of the week-time, start of the weekend, relaxed dinner – and maybe-a-glass-of-something-time? A few weeks ago, with long-packed boxes finally emerging from the attic at the brewery, I was thrilled to rediscover...
Demos / Do / Irish beer & cider / Work
by Caroline · Published July 31, 2012 · Last modified September 5, 2017
If you’re around West Cork over the August Bank Holiday weekend, you might just want to take yourself along to Liss Ard 2012, a festival of music, literature, drama and (very importantly!) food. I’ll...
Something good just got better. Take your favourite chocolate brownie recipe, dot the brown, cocoa-rich batter with dollops of a simple vanilla cheesecake mixture, swirl and bake. Irresistible? They never seem to last long here....
