A Row of Canapés As regular readers of this blog (or followers on my Facebook Page) know, my friend Carol has been coming over for a ‘catch-up’ for a number of years now. Although we live only a few minutes walk away from each other, it’s the only time we see each other. We have…
London for Food Lovers It is not often that Mr T wants to go to the big smoke but two weeks ago, we boarded the plane and swished over to London. I have been to London many times but have never really written about the food experiences yet. London is a melting pot of different…
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…
Christmas Craft & Food Markets Below is a list of upcoming Christmas Craft & Food Markets from around the country. If you know about a market that is not listed, please email [email protected] with the details. Please note: the listing is not chronological and not sorted by county/location. The title of each market is a…
Setting the Scene A few weeks back I organised an artisan lunch for a corporate client’s overseas visitors. As the lunch was meant to showcase the best of Cork’s produce, the majority of the budget was indeed spent on the food. As much as I knew the food would impress the diners, I also wanted…