Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
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For Irish Raw Milk Cheese Week, which runs from 8 to 14 May 2023, the work of eight farmhouse cheesemakers – who collectively make 24 different varieties of Irish raw milk cheese – are being showcased.
A mad, crazy family trip over Easter: Amsterdam to Zurich to Budapest to Ljubljana to Treviso. Nine days of walking, WWII treasure hunts, green parakeets, overnight trains, chocolate factories, rooftop aperitivo, Swiss mountains, gastroenteritis,...
There are other of getting your chocolate fix without compromising a healthy diet. Drinking it, in the form of cacao tea or a cacao beverage, ticks lots of great dietary boxes while still letting you enjoy the familiar flavour of really good chocolate.
First published in the Irish Foodie Spring 2021 magazine. If you were to trace the path of the River Lee from its Shedy Mountain source on the Cork-Kerry border along the beautiful Lee Valley...
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.
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...
First published in the Irish Examiner on 1 September 2021 More than one-third of all food is wasted, according to 2021 UN report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World. One-third....
