Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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by Caroline · Published March 14, 2018 · Last modified May 12, 2021
McNally Family Farm, Cockagee Cider, St Tola Irish Goat Cheese, Wildwood Balsamics, Connemara Smokehouse, Baltimore Bacon, Sligo Global Kitchen and the Fergusons of Gubbeen. That’s a line up of producers and organisations to be...
Monday, I spotted Joanne of Stitch and Bear mentioning on Facebook that there had been a run on bread in her local supermarket. “Ha! Dublin,” I thought. “Must be an isolated incident.” On Tuesday, there...
