Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Freelance work, from newspaper and magazine articles to radio features and series
Wrapped up in beautiful, oval, little packages, eggs are the workhorse of the kitchen. But, despite many delicious uses – and the fact that they’re a nutritious powerhouse – they are often undervalued. Kylie Magner of Magner’s Farm in Tipperary is working on changing this.
Summertime barbecues don’t just have to be all about throwing great hunks of meat on the flames: fish dishes can also take centre place. Aishling Moore of Goldie in Cork talks about cooking her sustainable gill-to-tail fish dishes over hot coals.
For nutritious salads that taste as good as they look, check out new Irish cookbook Mezze: Middle Eastern Food to Share from Tramore-based Nicola Crowley and Dvir Nusery.
Denis Cotter has always put vegetables at the centre of the plate in Café Paradiso. Almost 30 years later, the rest of the world has caught up with him.
First published in the Irish Examiner on 6 March 2022. Mayo company Velvet Cloud is giving away their delicious, nutritious sheep yogurt in a bid to get more people to taste the product. Founder...
First published in the Irish Foodie Spring 2021 magazine. If you were to trace the path of the River Lee from its Shedy Mountain source on the Cork-Kerry border along the beautiful Lee Valley...
As the chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, it has been my honour and privilege to edit this year’s Irish IFWG Food Awards e-zine featuring the 2022 winners. It is fitting that it...
Despite the fact that WildFlour Bakery’s Chris Fahey only started to bake professionally in 2020, he’s already garnered a reputation for quality: “If anyone asks, I tell them what I use – local ingredients and Irish ingredients. You can’t cut costs on ingredients.”
