ABV Fest + GIY Food Matters
Two great festivals coming up over the next couple of weekends – and I’m delighted to be working at them both. The first is the ever-brilliant ABV Fest in Belfast. This is the fourth...
Category: Demos
Cookery demonstrations
Hearsay 2017. Listen – and taste.
When I did a drop off in Kilfinane on Thursday, I met Mike who had flown from Sydney to pick up a Hearsay Audio award for his A Nightmare before Christmas. Friday evening, at...
Hearsay 2017. An Audible Tasting.
Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me, Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me, Staker, Staker, you can’t catch me… Staker Wallace was the bogeyman of Kilfinane. Hanged, drawn and quartered in the revolutionary year of...
Beer and food at Holy Smoke and ABV Fest
This summer I’ve been working with Holy Smoke Cork on a series of beer and food nights, events where we showcase the best of Cork food and beer, with an occasional tot of local...
Killarney Beerfest: beer and food
This year’s beer and food event at Killarney Beerfest was a little different; I got to work with Chad Byrne, head chef at The Brehon, who cooked on site and presented a selection of...
LitFest 2017: A Food and Drinks Literacy Festival at Ballymaloe
Five years. Five years of learning and cooking and growing and inspiration and bringing the best of the world’s food writers to East Cork. Five years of the Ballymaloe LitFest. That’s where I’ve been moved by René...
Cookery Demo + Greek Yoghurt Chocolate Pots
That brief spurt of sunshine earlier in the week had us all digging out the shorts and flip flops and lighter recipes for warmer times. The girls thought that it was summer. They plotted to have...
GIY GROWFest in Waterford
There were lots of good things to do with growing and cooking and eating taking place in Waterford last weekend. Being MC for the COOK programme at the GIY GROW Fest meant that I was in the right...