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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for August - The Box Tree Stepaside Dublin 18

The Box Tree - Stepaside Dublin 18 Ireland

Author: Just Ask

Tucked away in Stepaside village, near Leopardstown race course, ‘The Box Tree by Eamonn O’Reilly’ is the latest venture by one of Ireland’s foremost chefs, whose city centre restaurants – the fine dining destination, One Pico, and its more casual sister, Bleu Café Bistro - have a well-earned reputation for consistently good, ingredients-led cooking.
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The Darina Allen Column

Author: Darina Allen

The fight to preserve the right to produce, sell and buy raw milk in Ireland is entering a critical phase. In response to a letter protesting the proposed ban from Georgina Campbell to the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mr Simon Coveney, TD, a reply was recently received from The Department, explaining the background from their viewpoint and stating that...
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Late Summer Tea Party

Author: Georgina Campbell

Gardens are really beautiful at the moment and, as the days are getting noticeably shorter, this is the time to celebrate late summer with a tea party to remember. Pick a lazy sunny afternoon and invite family or special friends to enjoy a treat that they will remember with pleasure when the autumn starts to bite.
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Insider View - On What Went Wrong

Hilton Park - Clones County Monaghan Ireland

Author: Lucy Madden

Like many of us in Ireland today, Lucy Madden is asking, What Went Wrong? Some 20 years ago my daughter was the first generation of Trinity graduates who did not, as she said at the time, “get straight on the plane”. For the first time in decades young, educated Irish people had the possibility of making their lives on this island and many of them did...
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Grow it Yourself - August

Author: Michael Kelly

Harry's Restaurant has been getting rave reviews and much-deserved plaudits of late. Run by Donal Doherty, the restaurant is bucking the recessionary trend by attracting people in their droves to the remote Inishowen peninsula in Donegal. How are they doing it? By serving only the freshest, local and seasonal produce, and by growing their own grub.
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This Farming Life

Castlefarm Athy County Kildare Ireland - Courgette & Peas

Author: Jenny Young

Castlefarm is thriving. In our pastures, the organic grass is growing a little slower than we would like but clover is plentiful. This is good news for our cows, as well as the bees that are busy feeding on the flowers. Our oats are nearly ready for harvesting, as is our arable silage.
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Sarahs Wonderful Honey

Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them

'Sarah's Wonderful Honey' is the brainchild of Sarah Gough, who is General Manager of her family’s business, Mileeven Fine Foods, in Kilkenny. Founded in 1988 by her mother, Eilis Gough, the company is renowned for its quality produce - honey, organic preserves and other fine foods - and is one of the few mother-daughter run businesses in Ireland.
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Blueberries

Author: In Season

Now widely recognised as a ‘superfood’, blueberries are bigger cousins of the native Irish bilberry or fraughan and thrive in similar peaty habitats. Grown on cutaway bogland in Co Offaly, Irish blueberries are in season in August and September, when they are available in shops. Along with many other Irish fruit and vegetables, including strawberries and rasberries, they’re distributed by...
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Book Review - Cooking Gluten Wheat and Dairy Free by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson

Author: Cookbook Reviews

For anyone suffering from allergies or intolerances to dairy, wheat and gluten, the main problem is that they are the most commonly used ingredients in food manufacture, so most ready-made foods contain at least one of these products. This means you will have to cook for yourself – and you could not ask for a better, or more experienced guide than Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for July - Richys Restaurant Clonakilty Co Cork

Richys Restaurant - Clonakilty County Cork ireland

Author: Just Ask

When everyone heads off on the annual pilgrimage to West Cork in July, many of those in the know will make a point of dropping into this relaxed and atmospheric family-friendly restaurant in Clonakilty.
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