Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
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by Caroline · Published May 15, 2013 · Last modified April 19, 2021
Imagine walking into a room and seeing your cookbook collection walking around. Look! Over there, that delicately beautiful Indian woman just has to be Madhur Jaffrey. Is that Stephanie Alexander standing at the back...
Reading the stylish and useful Ard Bia Cookbook reminded me of meeting Aoibheann Mac Namara back in 2008. I was interviewing her for the Foodtalk series of documentaries for Newstalk: her son Oni – the book...
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by Caroline · Published September 7, 2011 · Last modified June 15, 2016
We eat a lot of honey at the cottage. The Husband is a particular fan of it on toast for breakfast and Little Missy always loves to get her fingers sticky with a corner...
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by Caroline · Published August 25, 2011 · Last modified June 15, 2016
When I travelled to the first Irish Cloud Festival which took place in Skibbereen at the end of June, I was wearing two hats. The car was loaded up with cases of Sunburnt Irish...
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by Caroline · Published July 23, 2011 · Last modified October 22, 2018
If you haven’t been able to get your hands on tickets for the sell-out Cork Opera House Cave concerts in Mitchelstown Cave, you can get a feel for the event from this piece I...
Culture File on RTÉ Lyric FM / Do / Radio / Work
by Caroline · Published July 15, 2011 · Last modified June 15, 2016
Last month, during the Lismore Festival Of Travel Writing, I interviewed author Jasper Winn on the Blackwater. Jasper is the author of Paddle: A Long Way Around Ireland, in which he writes about his...
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by Caroline · Published May 12, 2011 · Last modified June 15, 2016
When the first faint scent of wild garlic wafts through the spring air, many people’s thoughts turn to foraging. And this year there is more of an interest in wild food than ever before,...
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by Caroline · Published March 18, 2011 · Last modified June 15, 2016
Somehow I can manage to get food into most reports that I do for Lyric fm’s Culture File.
Ireland’s first Sacred Harp Convention took place in University College Cork over the first weekend in March. I was there, recording and enjoying the singing – but also asking people about Dinner-on-the-Grounds.
