Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Irish food in 2023 isn’t about boiled bacon and cabbage. It’s not focused on colcannon, champ or boxty, delicious though all those things are. There are chefs and cooks throughout Ireland looking at great Irish ingredients in a new light and cooking with them in innovative ways.
Chefs always have their favourite brands to finish foods, Nigella carries a pinch pot of it around in her handbag, Samin Nosrat calls it one of the four basic elements of good cooking: salt is essential but not many people stop to think about where it comes from.
First published in the Irish Examiner on Friday 3 March 2023. “I try to hook people with the fact that these foods are delicious!” The ebullient Terri Ann Fox, founder and teacher at River...
First published in the Irish Examiner on Friday 3 February. Sarah Richards of Waterford’s Seagull Bakery uses Irish-grown flours to bring both flavour and nutrition to her bread and support a local grain economy....
First published in the Irish Examiner on 6 January 2023. Even if you’re not jumping on the Veganuary bandwagon, January is a month when many people take stock of what they’re eating. A new...
New cookbooks can make life that little bit brighter and there are books out there for everyone, books with gorgeous covers and a satisfactory heft, books that open the door to new foods and techniques, books that entertain and books that teach.
Christmas food doesn’t have to be stressful to be special and clever cooks always have some cheat ingredients stashed away to make life easier.
