Author: Georgina Campbell
Butter Boy is not Paul Flynn’s first cookbook – in fact it is his fifth – but when this lovely big yellow door stopper of a book landed on my desk it took me straight back to the beginning and the early years of the Egon Ronay’s Ireland Guide when Paul was leading the kitchen team at Dublin’s wonderful La Stampa, the Guide’s 1995 Restaurant of the Year...
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Author: Georgina Campbell
You can’t beat a collaborative local cookbook for creating a real sense of place and this new book from members of the Created in Cavan Food Network is well worth seeking out.
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Author: Georgina Campbell
It’s good to see some of our favourite food and drink producers honoured at the 2023 Euro-Toques Food Awards, which were held recently at the lovely Dunbrody Country House Hotel in Arthurstown, Co Wexford.
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Author: Georgina Campbell
A great sense of post-pandemic reconnection came out of a very enjoyable trip around Donegal and some of the more northerly parts of Northern Ireland recently, inspiring another deep dive into Paula McIntyre’s most recent book, Taste Causeway – Recipes and Stories. And what a lovely read it is...
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Author: Georgina Campbell
Ground breaking, inspirational, ever-evolving, respectful of the vegetable kingdom (both plants and producers), responsible, sustainable, bold, beautiful, deeply-flavoured, different and oh-so-enjoyable - these are the kind of thoughts that crowd the mind when the acclaimed chef Denis Cotter or his wonderful restaurant Paradiso are mentioned. And how lucky are we to have accumulated so many memories since they hit the Cork restaurant scene in 1993...
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Author: Georgina Campbell
A timely publication if ever there was one – and very appropriately launched recently at a lovely homely event in Eoin McCluskey’s Bread 41 Dublin bakery and café - this unusual collaborative Irish cookbook celebrates the relationship between food and home, in aid of the national housing and homeless charity Peter McVerry Trust...
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Author: Georgina Campbell
On 7th March, The Irish Food Writers’ Guild celebrated 30 years of their annual IFWG Food Awards with an event at Dublin’s Suesey Street, where the award winners’ products were used to create a stunning lunch menu for invited guests...
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Author: Georgina Campbell
It was exciting to see my copy of Soup popping through the letterbox. The first title of the second series from publishing sensation Kristin Jensen’s Blasta Books, it follows hot on the heels of the four 2022 titles...
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Author: Georgina Campbell
It is a happy coincidence that – although now available all year round – vitamin-packed citrus fruits are in their peak season in January and February, bringing the scents and flavours of sunnier climes just when we need them most...
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