Read: The Echo | Show some lunchbox love
An edited version of this feature was first published in The Echo on 28 August 2019. The kids think that the summer holidays will never start, the parents think that they’ll never end –...
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Read: Irish Examiner | The A-Z of flying with kids
I’ve distilled more than ten years of air travel (mostly long haul) with my smallies into an A-Z of flying with kids for the Irish Examiner.
Fast food: Asparagus and ricotta tart
This is less a recipe and more a reminder – for myself – to make the most of asparagus while I can. We are fortunate to have neighbours who regularly have an asparagus glut...
Euro-Toques Food Awards 2019
When the best chefs and producers come together, they create magic on the plate. It is a natural synergy, a creative partnership that thrives on passion and excellence – and one that all restaurant-lovers...
Gathering food: Slow cooked brisket with stout, rhubarb and mustard
You know you’re properly grown up (or getting old) when there’s a cousins’ get together – with no Mammys or aunts present. One of my Malaysian cousins recently moved to Ireland and he brought...
She is Sustainable: Building a sustainable food economy
This is my sustainability story, a story about building a local sustainable food economy, as told at the first She Is Sustainable: Cork conference.
Gluten Free: Coconut Slice
When Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich, the couple behind London restaurant Honey & Co were coming to Ballymaloe Litfest in 2015, I took their first book – Honey & Co: The Cookbook – out...
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...