Irish Food Bloggers Association: 2010 – 2015
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...
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Gingerbread House 2018
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...
TheJournal.ie: ‘This girl’s best friend is her slow cooker’
From leftover lunches, to slow cooker feasts, snacks for smallies, girls with their greens and the book that changed everything: when Amy Mulvaney from TheJournal.ie asked me to share five recent Instagram photos and the stories...
Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat – and how to live
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...
Irish Food Writers’ Guild: Community Food Award
For the last three years, the Irish Food Writers’ Guild have given a Community Food Award to a deserving organisation doing great work in the area of social responsibility. The winners have varied from food redistribution...
Food photography + spiced chocolate courgette cake
On 8 September 2011, I was at an Irish Food Bloggers Association food photography / styling and recipe writing workshop that was being presented by Donal Skehan, Sharon Hearne-Smith and Kristin Jensen. I went with a...
Meetings with Mrs Allen: Myrtle Allen of Ballymaloe House 1924 – 2018
Back in 2001, I was the editor of a website called Tasty. We were part of ACE – Arts, Culture, Entertainment – a new, energetic section of RTÉ Online. The overall ACE (in more ways...
A Thursday night at Ichigo Ichie
Thursday morning. An unexpected babysitting offer for that night. A tweet spotted on chef Takashi Miyazaki’s account to say that there was space for two in his new restaurant Ichigo Ichie. Frantic pyjama-clad emailing. Booking...