Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
As Chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild for the last three years, one of my most rewarding jobs has been co-ordinating and organising the annual IFWG Food Awards event and this year we awarded oysters, organic chicken and regeneratively reared meat, traditionally made pastry, Ireland’s first vermouth and Irish food innovators.
Food Events / IFWG / Work
by Caroline · Published October 15, 2023 · Last modified February 29, 2024
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Twenty years ago Nigella Lawson‘s How to Eat was published. A year later, myself and both my housemates bought copies. All three of us were in our early twenties, just finished/finishing college, not long...
