Author: Georgina Campbell
A member of the brassica (cabbage) family dating back to the 16th century or earlier, cauliflower is one of our healthiest and most versatile vegetables. With its white curdy head surrounded by a collar of green leaves, it is a lovely plant when freshly picked, yet it is widely undervalued - and that despite the fact that its image in some quarters has had an unexpected boost thanks to its rise to stardom in top restaurant kitchens of late.
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Author: Jenny Young
What it means to be an organic farmer in Ireland today … Jenny Young writes about life and work on an organic mixed farm in Co Kildare - and selling its produce.
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Author: Michael Kelly
New Year's resolutions sometimes get a bad rap, because they seem to represent the folly and flightiness of the human spirit. We start off the year with grand intentions to eat only salads, walk/run/swim 100 miles a week, and to do Bikram yoga in a sauna until we weigh as much as a baby sparrow. But then by the end of January we've quietly abandoned our good intentions and reverted to guilty, bloated type.
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Author: Georgina Campbell
Chef/restaurateur and academic Jp McMahon’s passion for all things Iberian is no secret and, of the terrific trio of Galway restaurants that he and his wife Drigin operate - the much-feted Aniar, Cava Bodega and EAT Gastropub - there’s always a feeling that his heart beats fastest for Cava. This book is certainly written from the heart and, like so many books with subtitles, therein lies its raison d’etre.
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Author: Lucy Madden
Lucy Madden begins the new year by sharing a guilty secret - and it is one that will be familiar to many... My sister and I for years have shared a guilty secret; it may be hard to believe but we hate (and I choose the word carefully) going to parties. Unfortunately friends refuse to believe this strange quirk, (“You’ll love it when you get there/here”) so the occasional invitation still arrives to be greeted by cries of ‘Oh no.
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Author: Just Ask
Welcome is the byword at Frankie Mallon's deservedly popular Westport restaurant, you feel it from the moment you enter - or even when you visit the website, where the language on the home page conveys a warm feeling that both customers and suppliers are valued and respected.
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Author: Georgina Campbell
Twenty five years on and the original recipes in Darina Allen's A Simply Delicious Christmas (Gill & Macmillan, hardback €27.99) still seem as fresh and relevant as ever, but this handsome celebratory edition also includes over a hundred new recipes and many of these are a gentle seasonal reflection of our changing tastes in food.
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Author: Darina Allen
The scent of spices is synonymous with Christmas, so what better time for Darina to think back over the changes she has seen in our use of spices over three decades at Ballymaloe Cookery School - and to welcome Arun Kapil’s recently published cookbook, ‘Fresh Spice’.
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Author: Georgina Campbell
Georgina Campbell reviews several recently published books -
Grow Cook Eat by Michael Kelly, (GIY Ireland Ltd, hardback 294pp, full colour; €25);
Prannie Rhatigan’s Guide to Edible Seaweeds,(http://irishseaweedkitchen.ie/shop €8.45 + 2.15 p+p within Ireland) ,
Naked Paleo - Food stripped Bare, by Pat Divilly (Blackwater Press, paperback, 140pp, full colour; €19.95), and
GOOD NUTRITION for Cancer Recovery (University College Cork)
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Author: Eunice Power
I am really fond of making Christmas cakes and look forward to making them each year. There is something immensely comforting about the aroma of warm spices in the kitchen while the cake is baking. I have lovely childhood memories of helping my mum decorate the Christmas cake.
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