Listen: #FreakFood
Your Instagram feed may be – as mine frequently is – stuffed with beautiful, decadent looking and, occasionally, gloriously outlandish pictures of food. But what comes first: the look or the taste? From Australian Freakshakes...
Category: Culture File on RTÉ Lyric FM
Radio reports for the Culture File programme which is broadcast weekdays during drive time on RTÉ’s classical music station, Lyric FM.
Listen: Chef Takashi Miyazaki celebrates all the 7s
The stars are underground… At 7pm on the seventh day of the seventh month, Cork-based Japanese chef Takashi Miyazaki cooked a meal to celebrate the festival of Tanabata. A star festival that’s based on...
Listen: Ballymaloe Litfest 2016
We came, we learned, we loved every minute of it. The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest 2016 was an absolute corker, from Francis Mallman’s 4am fire vigal, the Claire Ptak-Jeremy Lee comedy duo /cookery demo, Irish cider...
Listen: Dermot Sugrue at Wiston Estate
English sparkling wine; a joke no longer, especially if you taste the fruits of Dermot Sugrue’s labours at Wiston Estate Winery. These elegant and poised wines come from the chalk slopes of the South Downs in...
Listen: Lens & Larder at Ballyvolane House
A well-used wooden table, set for four in the middle of a farm yard, with mismatched plates, battered crockery and crumpled, earth-toned linens. Food gathered at the English Market – a whole smoked mackerel, sweet Toonsbridge buffalo ricotta, Tom...
Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards 2016
An export stout, pickled herring, organic milk, foraged preserves, sourdough bread and an organic orchard. Just imagine being a chef presented with such an eclectic selection – and asked to create a meal using these...
Listen: Culture File – George Boole College Pudding
Using a computer? Listening to a digital radio? About to search the internet? Bookmarking a dinner recipe that you’ll be weighing on a digital scale? Your life is touched every day by Boolean algebra, which...
Savour Kilkenny’s Battle of the Bottle + Listen: The Golden Ticket
Looking for something to do this weekend? You might be interested in two festivals taking place, one in Kilkenny, the other in Wexford. Savour Kilkenny kicks off tomorrow morning, with Anne Neary hosting a...