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Darina shares some of her favourite tips and recipes to make the most of an abundant harvest of homegrown produce - and reminds us to focus on the quality of the food we are feeding ourselves and our families at this critical time
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The benefits of growing your own food are endless. Not only can it improve your health and save you money, but it is also a fantastic way to reduce your food waste...
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The famous foodie who’s flying the tricolour for us in Texas reflects on some of things that struck her on a recent trip to Ireland - including the absence of the American accent - as she sets to work on summer 2021
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Thanks to this year’s travel restrictions, 2020 will go down as the year of the great Irish staycation. And that’s proving to be a silver lining of this challenging time as - just as we did in the recession, when foreign holidays were put on hold for different reasons - many of us have found ourselves exploring some of the quieter areas of Ireland, spending more time close to nature and enjoying the opportunity to forage for the plentiful free food that is to be found everywhere at this time of year...
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Time for a jam session! Celebrating this year’s bumper fruit crops, Darina shares her 10 golden rules for successful jam-making - even if you’re a complete novice
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An Irish Vigneronne in France: This month our Irish Chef in France, Martin Dwyer, tells the story of local wine producer Neasa Corish Miquel, who is from Foxrock, and her husband Laurent, whose family have had vineyards in the Languedoc since 1791
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Aoife Carrigy heads west in search of the taste of the Flaggy Shore
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Aoife Carrigy talks to Seamus O’Hara of Drinks Ireland Cider about why Irish cider is at a seriously exciting stage in it millennia-long evolution
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Ireland’s first PhD in Food Tourism, John Mulcahy, speaks with vision and experience when he says the Covid cloud has a silver lining – the food in tourism
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It’s all about the ingredients again this month - and why wouldn’t it be. High summer has brought an abundance of terrific Irish produce, so there’s no better time to keep it simple and spend less time in the kitchen - let seasonal foods do the talking on the plate...
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