Irish Examiner | Taking baby steps through Hanoi
In 2010, while coming back from Little Missy’s first NZ visit, the Husband and I were fortunate enough to get an invitation from a friend based in Hanoi. Take a 10-month-old baby to Vietnam?...
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Food writing in the digital age: Irish Examiner feature
My feature article on food writing in the digital age for Irish Examiner is now online from this link: Developing a taste for digital delights Putting things online is never an exact science! The...
Food writing in the digital age: Aoife McElwain, I Can Has Cook
Part three of a three-part series of interviews on inspiration, trends and recommended reading that I did with Irish food writers and bloggers for a recent Irish Examiner feature. Food writer Aoife McElwain has used...
Food writing in the digital age: David Kiernan, Kitchen 72
Part two of a three-part series of interviews on inspiration, trends and recommended reading that I did with Irish food writers and bloggers for last weekend’s Irish Examiner feature. David Kiernan of Kitchen72.com and a former Daily...
Food writing in the digital age: John McKenna, The McKennas’ Guides
For the feature I wrote in last Saturday’s Irish Examiner, several food writers and bloggers spoke to me about digital media, multimedia in a food writing world and their top picks for online food information...
Listen: Culture File – Fermentation guru Sandor Katz
Cabbages empowering people? Stranger things have happened, especially in the bubbly, fizzy, pungent world of fermentation legend Sandor Katz. His demonstration at the recent Ballymaloe LitFest was one of the hottest tickets of the weekend,...
Sunshine salad days: Broccoli, Tomato and Avocado Salad
“Is it warm spring, now, Mammy?” asked Little Missy this morning as she gazed out the window at sunshine while I scrabbled in last year’s boxes to find her a summer dress. As far...
Lyric fm: Claudia Roden at Ballymaloe Litfest
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...