Irish Food Writers’ Guild Awards 2019
Raw milk cheese from Counties Down and Cork. A goat farm in Antrim. Organic spelt berries grown in Louth. Rare apple ice wine made from Cork apples. A Dublin-based coffee organisation. A Cork-based charity...
Raw milk cheese from Counties Down and Cork. A goat farm in Antrim. Organic spelt berries grown in Louth. Rare apple ice wine made from Cork apples. A Dublin-based coffee organisation. A Cork-based charity...
History has always been tied up with what we eat. From individual Proustian dishes that take us down personal memory lanes to the collective impact that a food – or a famine – can...
I visited Beirut for the first time in March – a long-anticipated and hoped-for trip. My feature on that cosmopolitan city’s great food and warm-hearted hospitality appeared in the Irish Examiner last Saturday and...
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...
Eating Out / Food Events / IFWG / Work
by Caroline · Published March 14, 2018 · Last modified May 12, 2021
McNally Family Farm, Cockagee Cider, St Tola Irish Goat Cheese, Wildwood Balsamics, Connemara Smokehouse, Baltimore Bacon, Sligo Global Kitchen and the Fergusons of Gubbeen. That’s a line up of producers and organisations to be...
A fabulous, feel-good beer festival in a deconsecrated Methodist church. Crunchy whitebait cichetti at Coppi. Instagram-perfect weekend brunches at Established Coffee, that taste even better than they look. Belfast, in 2017, was an exciting, fun, friendly, food-filled city...
When you get an email from The Gannet, asking you if you’d be interested in taking a couple of people on a tour of Cork city, with a particular focus on pubs and microbreweries,...
Demos / Irish beer & cider / Work
by Caroline · Published October 10, 2017 · Last modified November 12, 2018
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...