Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Delighted to discover that Bibliocook is a finalist in this year’s Littlewoods Ireland Blog Awards. Some great people on the list in my category – the Food Experience blog – so well worth checking them...
First published in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, 10 August 2016. As the feature I submitted was a little longer than necessary (it was the recipes, honest!), I’ve broken it into two for the blog. Part 1 –...
This was first published in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday, 10 August 2016 but – as I got so carried away when writing about fabulous fictional food in children’s books! – there wasn’t quite enough space for all...
First published on Irish Country Living. One day while collecting the Small Girl from preschool, a teacher stopped me with a question: “would you like some lettuce?” For the last term, the preschool class had...
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by Caroline · Published July 27, 2016 · Last modified October 25, 2017
We came, we learned, we loved every minute of it. The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest 2016 was an absolute corker, from Francis Mallman’s 4am fire vigal, the Claire Ptak-Jeremy Lee comedy duo /cookery demo, Irish cider...
This is a sponsored post for Bord Bia’s tastyeasylamb promotion. The opinions and words are my own. “How many?” “Four,” I said. And with that, the butcher unhooked his longest, largest saw, picked up a...
First published on Irish Country Living. One cold winter’s morning in 2014 I went, radio mic in hand, to Ballingarry where I recorded Theresa Storey – aka The Green Apron artisan preserve company – making her...
English sparkling wine; a joke no longer, especially if you taste the fruits of Dermot Sugrue’s labours at Wiston Estate Winery. These elegant and poised wines come from the chalk slopes of the South Downs in...
