Category: Cooking & Ingredients

Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards

The Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards Cookbook has just hit the shelves. Published annually in spring, the cookbook features 30 finalist recipes from the annual cookery competition, alongside over one…

Paul Flynn’s Family Food

None other than IFWG Chairperson, Lizzie Gore-Grimes, has edited Lidl’s new cookbook, written by celebrated chef Paul Flynn of the award-winning Tannery Restaurant in Dungarvan. This gorgeous, family-friendly cookbook is…

A Private Audience With Gordon Ramsay

By Myles McWeeney. It is certainly not every day you get Gordon Ramsay cooking up a storm for you personally. Recently I was fortunate enough to meet him in the…

Seaweed Song

By Lizzie Gore-Grimes. Underneath our very noses here in Ireland we have a rich culinary resource that goes largely untapped; and that gastro-goldmine is our sea vegetable-rich shoreline. From dillisk…

Gourmet Cooking Experience in France

By Jeanne Quigley. When I saw the ad ‘Places available for journalists on a Gourmet Explorer Cookery Course in France’ I jumped at the opportunity. Five days in the kitchen…

Christmas Cookbooks

Aoife Carrigy suggests a selection of home-grown Irish cookbooks from members of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild as the perfect Christmas gift for the foodie in your life… If you’re…

Caraway Seeds in Abundance

By Marion Maxwell. They have been found by archaeologists at the bottom of  Swiss lakes and in Egyptian tombs. In Germany they were  placed under the beds of  restless children…

Cooking With Flavours

By Petra Carter. Take a spoonful of sugar. Take two. Or even three. Nice? Not really. But combine the sugar with something bitter (say coffee) and its sweetness is transformed…