Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Last year, I spent August doing beer tasting and cooking demos with the Theatre of Food at the Liss Ard, Tall Ships and Electric Picnic Festivals. Do it again for Electric Picnic 2013? Once...
Bake / Do / Food for Friends / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published August 21, 2013 · Last modified September 24, 2021
I didn’t eat potatoes until I was 30. Not voluntarily at least. Like almost every other Irish child I was weaned on milk-and-butter-rich pandy. But it wasn’t too long before I began to assert...
It had to be done. The sun – sun! – was shining all the time, the forecast was saying crazy things like “exceptionally warm, sunny period with temperatures in the high twenties”, I had...
How important is ritual? I’ve come to realise that, for small people, it is essential. It’s their way of marking the weeks that pass on a calender that they don’t yet understand. In a...
Every year, about this time, there’s a lot of huffing and puffing about stout. Guinness, to name a particular well-marketed brand. But you don’t just have to go for the obvious option if you’re...
2012 was the year of beer. And that year involved a hell of a lot of talking and tasting and discovering and cooking with Irish craft beer. There were beer tasting events and beer...
Take a venue – it doesn’t have to be a restaurant, but decent kitchens make a difference – a limited time span and some nomadic chefs. What have you got? A pop-up-restaurant-tastic November with...
Bake / Food Events / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published October 25, 2012 · Last modified December 1, 2020
Standing on a wobbly kitchen chair to reach the mixing bowl, apron wrapped twice round my middle and my tongue taking a snatched opportunity to explore the rough texture of a well-used wooden spoon: food memories....
