Lyric fm: Foraging
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,...
Category: Work
Lyric fm: The Sacred Harp and Dinner-on-the-Grounds
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.
Irish Coffee past in The Irish Times and present in L Mulligan Grocer
On the eve of St Patrick’s Day, one’s thoughts turn – quite naturally – to Irish Coffee, especially if you’ve been at all following L Mulligan Grocer‘s search for the best of the best...
The Press, Christchurch: No-fuss comfort food
With all that’s happening in my former home of Christchurch, New Zealand at the moment – victims of the earthquake still being named, constant aftershocks some up to 4.1 in magnitude, work continuing on...
Underground Dining: The Loaves and Fishes Supper Club
Blogger Lilly Higgins runs an underground restaurant called the Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and I interviewed her for a feature that was broadcast on Lyric fm’s Culture File last week. As the piece was very short, I couldn’t use very much of her interview but, seeing as there is so much interest in the whole idea of underground dining at the moment, here’s a podcast of the chat we had at her home in Cobh last month.
Lyric fm: Going underground for dinner – underground dining in Ireland
My Culture File report on underground dining in Ireland, featuring Lilly Higgins’ Loaves and Fishes Supper Club and the Clonakilty by Candlelight pop-up restaurant events, is now available as a Lyric fm podcast.
Irish Examiner: Welcome to my world – 10 Irish bloggers
The profiles of these 10 Irish bloggers were first published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 22 January as part of the Welcome to my world feature.
Irish Examiner: Welcome to my world
Music obsessives, election watchers, fashionistas and foodies – meet Ireland’s bloggers by Caroline Hennessy for the Irish Examiner on Saturday 22 January.