Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Life / Lovely Lunches / Work
by Caroline · Published September 1, 2015 · Last modified October 27, 2020
My mum’s sultana scones, leftover bacon & kidney pie, made-by-me sticky orange and cinnamon scrolls. I’d be the first to admit that the things I took to school for lunch weren’t necessarily: a) the...
Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published August 14, 2015 · Last modified June 22, 2020
Summertime? Cider time! While I do know that cider is a year round drink, there’s just something about the sunshine that brings out the cider lover in me. And there’s lots of sunshine yet...
Culture File on RTÉ Lyric FM / Irish beer & cider / Radio / Work
by Caroline · Published August 4, 2015 · Last modified June 15, 2016
Some people call him the “Robert Parker of beer” – but you couldn’t hold that against US craft beer guru and raconteur Garrett Oliver. He’s also an award-winning brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery and the author of...
Food Events / Irish beer & cider / Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider
by Caroline · Published July 15, 2015 · Last modified September 8, 2017
Any excuse to visit Belfast, right? After a gap of 13 years, I was blown away by the quality of food when I went there in January. I jumped at the chance to return...
This time ten years ago, I was living in New Zealand. I was still getting to know the Kiwi, his multitudinous family and a whole new country, I was also recovering from a fractured...
While there may not have been very much sunshine lately, it’s always salad weather around at the cottage. I’m talking big platters of roasted vegetables tossed with grains like buckwheat and barley, bowls of...
First published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 28 February: This is how to spend 24 hours in Belfast With sublime raw materials on offer, including Himalayan salt-aged beef from Hannan’s Meats, delicious rolls of...
It had been 13 years since I last visited Belfast. Back in 2002, I hopped on the Enterprise one cold Friday evening en route to meet the new Kiwi boyfriend for, perhaps, the third...
