Food Stars 2017 At the start of every year, I look back and think about the food people who have impressed me most. Some people appear every year as they are consistently impressing me, other fall off as others take their place. This never means that I am not impressed anymore or think they are…
Food Photography – Course @ CIT As readers of my column in the Cork Independent already know, I am attending a Food Photography Course in CIT. What I assumed to be a sail-through course with a bit of fun turned into something that seems to be consuming me now. I learned a lot during the…
Cookbook Review: Neven Maguire’s Perfect Irish Christmas Having met Neven Maguire at one of his Dunnes Stores Simply Better cookery demonstrations and having had the pleasure of interviewing him, I have to admit that I became a big fan of the man. His personality when dealing with the public, journalists and everybody around him is…
Christmas Gift Guide 2017 To keep with tradition, every year around this time, I am publishing my gift guide for food lovers. These ideas are coming from me – I haven’t been paid to put these up and no affiliate program is attached to any links in this post – as always with the Bia…
Cork Gourmet Trail The fabulous Sandra Murphy is a force in Cork’s food and event scene and she didn’t disappoint with the Cork Gourmet Trail as part of the Cork Oyster Festival. Five venues with 12 vendors made for a perfect trail – not too short, not too long. We started off in the Metropole…
Product Watch: Bluebell Falls Goats Cheese In my work, I met amazing and fascinating people – food producers, farmers and writers. One of these people is Victor O’Sullivan of Bluebell Falls Farm in North Cork near Charleville where he produces the most amazing Bluebell Falls Goats Cheese. I only went to see the setup but…
Pork Meatballs in Wild Garlic Cream With the season of wild garlic halfway through, I thought, I can’t let spring go by without at least one dish with this lovely wild herb. Wild garlic is a relative of our domestic chives with wider leaves and white flowers (which are edible) and the season goes from…
Product of the Month: Ummera Smoked Picanha Beef This month’s Product of the Month: Ummera Smoked Picanha Beef is a homage to food innovation. For any company, coming up with new ideas and products can be heartbreaking. Not so for Anthony Creswell who started off with salmon as so many smoke houses did but has…
White Sprouting Broccoli I simply love discovering new ingredients and at my last visit to the Coal Quay Saturday Farmer’s Market I found these little beauties at Caroline Robinson’s stall. She calls them White Heart Broccoli and when I researched this cute vegetable I found out that it is actually a White Sprouting Broccoli. These…
Cookbook of the Month: Italian Street Food Cookbook of the Month: Italian Street Food – Italian food is loved and appreciated the world over and more books have been written about the subject than I can imagine. So a few days ago, I came across ‘Italian Street Food’ by Paola Bacchia. This Cookbook of the…