Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
First published in the Irish Examiner on 17 February 2021. A muesli bar and coffee, eaten on the move. A quick bowl of cornflakes. A banana tucked into a handbag. Or breakfast in the...
First published in The Echo on 8 December 2020. Let’s get one thing out of the way: there’s no such thing as THE perfect Christmas dinner, but there are many little elements that can...
First published in The Echo on 5 November 2020. There’s a newly minted nip in the air and the whole idea of tights, warm coats and wooly cardigans no longer seems far fetched. Nor...
It took a pandemic, says James Kelly of Ballymore Organics, “for people to develop an appreciation of the provenance of flour and of the synergy that it has with other quality Irish products.”
Got the lunchbox blues? I wrote a guide to school lunches for The Echo’s Back to School WoW section this week. It’s been a long, hard six months and although I know my ladies...
An edited version of this feature first appeared in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 15 August 2020. It was such fun to research and write with my young assistants – I’ve rarely seen them...
While the Irish culinary renaissance has seen chefs wholeheartedly embrace the farm to fork, locally produced ethos, some go even further than food, looking beyond the normal plate suppliers to source bespoke pottery.
Eating Out / Print / Work
by Caroline · Published November 29, 2019 · Last modified December 4, 2019
An edited version of this feature was first published in the Irish Examiner on 22 September 2019. Limerick was a city I learned by walking, with a side helping of food. Growing up an...
