Articles about Ireland Travel, Food & Hospitality

The Darina Allen Column - A Few Days in Wales

Author: Darina Allen

A Welsh farm we visited this summer is an example of what, in an ideal world, all farms could be - rich mixed pastures, abundant hedgerows filled with birdsong and wildlife, a pond teaming with fish and pollinating insects. A striking example of farming with nature.
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In Season - Autumn Fruits & Foraging

Author: Georgina Campbell

One of the regular highlights in our Inbox here at ireland-guide.com is the monthly newsletter from Neantóg, Gaby and Hans Wieland’s organic Garden, Kitchen & School at Cliffony, Co Sligo. Always brimming with good cheer, good ideas and good sense, it’s a real tonic.
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A Taste of Wexford

Author: Georgina Campbell

A highlight of the year for the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, of which I am a founder member, is our summer outing – and this time we had a ball visiting north Wexford. The sunny South-East lived up to its name in fine style and we had a lovely day immersed in the food culture of the area...
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Cookery Feature - Butter Boy

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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The Darina Allen Column - Change and Innovation

Author: Darina Allen

From very intensive conventional farmers to organic and biodynamic, even some small holders with just a couple of acres to landowners with 6000 plus acre estates. All had a common purpose, at the Groundswell Regenerative Agricultural Festival.
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