Articles about Ireland Travel, Food & Hospitality

Book Reviews - Georgina Campbell's Ireland, The Best of Irish Food & Hospitality & Dromoland Castle Cookbook

Georgina Campbell's Ireland Guide, The Best of Irish Food & Hospitality

Author: Cookbook Reviews

Our famously informative “glovebox bible” Georgina Campbell’s Ireland, The Best of Irish Food & Hospitality is back in print by popular demand. Having emerged from a spell as an online-only guide, this new print version is designed as a handy compact companion to Ireland’s leading independent hospitality and food website, Ireland-guide.com.
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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for September - Kilkenny Design Centre Restaurant

Author: Just Ask

With the seventh Savour Kilkenny Food Festival coming up (24-28 October 2013; www.savourkilkenny.com), there’s no better time to visit the Marble City - and no better place to eat than the Kilkenny Design Centre, just across the road from Kilkenny Castle. It has long been a favourite destination for lovers of good food and that’s down to the committed leadership of Kathleen Moran, proprietor since the centre opened in 1989.
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The Seafood Interview supported by BIM - The Lobster Pot, Dublin 4

Author: Marilyn Bright

This month Marilyn Bright talks to Gary Crean, proprietor of one of Dublin’s oldest and most famous restaurants, The Lobster Pot, in Ballsbridge.
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The Darina Allen Column

Author: Darina Allen

Darina reflects on what the 12 Week Certificate Course means to the students who complete it - and proudly announces that both she and her brother Rory O’Connell have finally moved into the 21st century and have (very active) Facebook pages!
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Cookery Feature - Tastes of Autumn

Author: Georgina Campbell

With autumn comes the harvest, and so many treats to be enjoyed. This miscellany of seasonal dishes is from Irish Country House Cooking, The Blue Book Recipe Collection - inspiration perhaps for some relaxing travel while the country is at its best.
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Top Tips for Beer & Food Matching - Stout & Oysters

Author: Kristin Jensen

In the latest of a series which shows how to get the best from particular food and beer pairings, our expert columnist and food blogger KRISTIN JENSEN gives her tips on matching Stout and Oysters - a classic partnership that offers plenty of scope for imaginative variations
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Rachel Gaffney's Letter from Texas - Are You Being Served?

Author: Rachel Gaffney

Rachel Gaffney, the famous foodie who’s flying the flag for Ireland in Texas, shares some of the good - and, revealingly, some of the not so good - experiences of a recent visit back to Ireland with her family
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Insider View on Holidays

Author: Lucy Madden

Lucy Madden considers those who admit that they do not like holidays - and there are more of them (us?) than you might think
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Grow it Yourself - September

Author: Michael Kelly

Soil. Well, it’s just dirt really, isn’t it? It’s something to be cleaned off our boots and scrubbed off our hands, right? When I started growing my own food, I didn’t have much respect for the soil that the veg was growing in. My focus was on the seed, the plants, the vegetables. The soil was actually a source of annoyance to me - it had to be dug, raked, hoed, rotavated, coaxed and cajoled.
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An Irish Chef in France

Author: Martin Dwyer

This morning is one of the very few mornings we have woken up to a guest free house this summer and I imagined I would luxuriate in the bed until a sinful 8 or 9 o clock before going to the kitchen, in the dressing gown, for coffee. I woke however at 6.45 as usual, just before the bells start ringing in at seven, and the thought of drinking coffee in the cool of the terrace before the sun warmed it from the east seemed far more attractive than another snooze.
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