Read: Porridge love
First published on Irish Country Living.” “A porridge café? We’re going to a porridge café?!” Both my sisters had the same reaction to my first-morning-in-London plan to visit a spot in Neal’s Yard called 26...
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Read: Irish Examiner | Fabulous fictional food – Part 1
This was first published in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, 10 August 2016 but – as I got so carried away when writing about fabulous fictional food in children’s books! – there wasn’t quite enough space for all...
Read: Fruit on the Table by Theresa Storey
First published on Irish Country Living. One cold winter’s morning in 2014 I went, radio mic in hand, to Ballingarry where I recorded Theresa Storey – aka The Green Apron artisan preserve company – making her...
Read: The Farmette Cookbook by Imen McDonnell + Frangipane
First published on Irish Country Living. It’s a love story. It’s a quest for home. It’s a showcase of great Irish food. It’s a love story. Once upon a time, one cold Minneapolis night, creative...
Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine 2016
Making lists. Checking them twice. Ordering books… No, I’m not stuck back in pre-Christmas hell, I’m glorying in a morning spent wandering through the website for the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine. Each and every year,...
Irish cookbooks for Christmas 2015 + Cranberry and orange sauce
Fresh cranberries, those gloriously red, bouncy berries – ever dropped an open pack on a tiled kitchen floor? – are now synonymous with Christmas, but it wasn’t always so. In Ireland during the 1980s, the only cranberry you might come...
Read: The Groundnut Cookbook
Cookbooks? I have a few. Around 700 or 800 on the bookshelves in the sitting room. About 50 piled high on the windowsill next to the kitchen table. And there’s another 30 or so...
Ravenous! The Cookbook Chronicles at Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest
Talk about cookbooks? I could go on and on for hours – that’s exactly what I’ll be doing this weekend, along with thousands of other fans of writing about food and history and beer...