Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
If you decide to swap your imported sweet treat for something made in Ireland, it’s no hardship as we’re fortunate to have a comprehensive confection of Irish-produced chocolate choices.
First published in the Irish Examiner on Friday 28 April 2023. Roman chicken and chips from Darina Allen. Ahmet Dede’s spiced lamb shoulder. Irish beef cheek lasagne from Tipperary butcher Pat Whelan: just three...
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 May 12, 2021
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 May 12, 2021
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...
Last night I was at the launch of the Good Food Ireland Week Cork in, naturally enough, the English Market. An array of Good Food Ireland producers had teamed up with restaurant, hotel and café members to showcase their products and there was a multi-course feast lined up on the Farmgate Café balcony overlooking the fountain.
For anyone interested in food, particularly Slow Food, it cannot have escaped your attention that Terra Madre Ireland will take place this week in Waterford.
