Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
If you’re interested in storytelling around brand building, particularly if you work in the food industry, Taste Cork is holding a free half day conference in Kinsale tomorrow from 9am. It’s part of Local...
Your Instagram feed may be – as mine frequently is – stuffed with beautiful, decadent looking and, occasionally, gloriously outlandish pictures of food. But what comes first: the look or the taste? From Australian Freakshakes...
Bake / Food for Friends / Print
by Caroline · Published February 11, 2017 · Last modified October 10, 2017
First published on Irish Country Living. Sometimes you cannot help. Words are not enough. There’s nothing that can be done. Nothing that you can do. But you can bake. My cousin’s little baby girl would...
Researching children’s books and food for the series of articles I’ve written recently in The Examiner, there’s one item that almost everyone seems to remember from their own childhood reading: the Turkish Delight that Edmund betrayed...
First published on the Alltech Craft Brews and Food website on 14 December 2016 under the title Hoppy Christmas! Written by Caroline Hennessy and Kristin Jensen. What’s better than drinking beer at Christmas? Cooking with...
A final helping of recipes inspired by food in children’s books. First published in the Irish Examiner on 30 November 2016. Part 1, with Pippi Longstocking’s Pepparkakor and roasted eggs and potatoes from The Secret Garden is here. And what about you? I’d...
First published on Irish Country Living. Mag Kirwan is a force of nature. She’s the woman behind Goatsbridge Trout Farm in Co Kilkenny, which produces the first class fresh, smoked and tinned trout –...
This was first published in the Irish Examiner on 30 November 2016 but – again! – I got carried away and there wasn’t quite enough space for all the text. Part 2 includes The Little House in...
