Gingerbread House 2019 + Christmas Eve traditions
Christmas Eve is when we move – lock, stock and all-the-presents barrel (while not forgetting the cat) – 30kms down the road into my folks’ house. The most important aspect of this busy day...
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Read: Irish Examiner | Eat Limerick
An edited version of this feature was first published in the Irish Examiner on 22 September 2019. Limerick was a city I learned by walking, with a side helping of food. Growing up an...
Euro-Toques Food Awards 2019
When the best chefs and producers come together, they create magic on the plate. It is a natural synergy, a creative partnership that thrives on passion and excellence – and one that all restaurant-lovers...
She is Sustainable: Building a sustainable food economy
This is my sustainability story, a story about building a local sustainable food economy, as told at the first She Is Sustainable: Cork conference.
Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards 2019
Raw milk cheese from Counties Down and Cork. A goat farm in Antrim. Organic spelt berries grown in Louth. Rare apple ice wine made from Cork apples. A Dublin-based coffee organisation. A Cork-based charity...
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...
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...