Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
Food Events / IFWG / Work
by Caroline · Published February 28, 2024 · Last modified October 11, 2024
As Chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild for the last three years, one of my most rewarding jobs has been co-ordinating and organising the annual IFWG Food Awards event and this year we awarded oysters, organic chicken and regeneratively reared meat, traditionally made pastry, Ireland’s first vermouth and Irish food innovators.
As the chair of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, it has been my honour and privilege to edit this year’s Irish IFWG Food Awards e-zine featuring the 2022 winners. It is fitting that it...
Three simple products: cheese, chocolate and black pudding. When done right, when made by people who care deeply about provenance, about craft and about the food that they produce, these can be sublime. Cheesemaker...
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...
For the last three years, the Irish Food Writers’ Guild have given a Community Food Award to a deserving organisation doing great work in the area of social responsibility. The winners have varied from food redistribution...
Eating Out / Food Events / IFWG / Work
by Caroline · Published March 14, 2018 · Last modified October 11, 2024
McNally Family Farm, Cockagee Cider, St Tola Irish Goat Cheese, Wildwood Balsamics, Connemara Smokehouse, Baltimore Bacon, Sligo Global Kitchen and the Fergusons of Gubbeen. That’s a line up of producers and organisations to be...
Culture File on RTÉ Lyric FM / Do / IFWG
by Caroline · Published March 3, 2016 · Last modified October 11, 2024
An export stout, pickled herring, organic milk, foraged preserves, sourdough bread and an organic orchard. Just imagine being a chef presented with such an eclectic selection – and asked to create a meal using these...
