Articles about Ireland Travel, Food & Hospitality

The Darina Allen Column

Author: Darina Allen

A sense of discovery for Darina this month, as she recounts a wonderful Slow Food trip to Northern Ireland. If you’ve never taken the train from Dublin to Belfast put it on your ‘must do’ list immediately; it’s certainly one of the loveliest train journeys I have ever experienced, all along the North Dublin coast into Dundalk.
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Achill Island Sea Salt - Special Irish Foods & The People Who Make Them

Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them

New products (and themed books) are like buses, you wait for ages for one to come along and then suddenly there are several. Despite our long, rugged coastline and clean Atlantic water, Irish sea salt was a long time coming, and now we have three...
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Insider View on Calorie Counted Menus

Author: Lucy Madden

This month, Lucy Madden speaks for us all - on the dread topic of calorie-counted menus - and has some sensible tips on meaningful menus too. (Ken Buggy’s quirky drawing shown here, has been pinned up in the Guide’s office for many years by the way…)
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An Irish Chef in France

Author: Martin Dwyer

Euro-Toques chef Martin Dwyer, is much missed in Ireland since he and his wife Sile sold their eponymous restaurant in Waterford and moved to France. They now live in the Languedoc, where they take guests - and feed them very well. This month Martin extols the virtues of an under-rated region, The Languedoc.
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Book Reviews - Bread on the Table & Wholesome

Author: Cookbook Reviews

Bread on the Table, Baking Traditions for Today, by Valerie O’Connor (O’Brien Press, hardback 160pp, €19.99/£17.99).
Wholesome: Feed Your Family Well for Less, by Caitriona Redmond (Mercier Press, paperback 256pp, €19.99).
Two more cookery books from well known Irish food bloggers this month - anyone who thinks print is dead should take a look at the avalanche of food bloggers’ books that have appeared since Donal Skehan broke the mould with his Good Mood Food.
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Grow It Yourself - June

Author: Michael Kelly

Could soil be the new Prozac? This is a question prompted by a recent research study, which found that treatment with a specific soil bacterium, Mycobacterium vaccae, can alleviate the symptoms of depression.
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The Eunice Power Column

Author: Eunice Power

We have the most delicious sweet crab in Co Waterford. I get my crab from Helvic, the pots go out traditionally on St Patricks day – which incidentally is a busy day on land and at sea as it is also the deadline for planting potatoes. We enjoy fresh crab from the end of March until the weather gets cold at the end of October.
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In Season - Radishes

Author: In Season

Although there are other edible members of the ancient radish family, Raphanus sativus - which includes white radish (daikon or mooli, used widely in Japan) and black radish - it is the jaunty little red globe that’s in season now that we all know and love, and that we are most likely to see on sale or harvest from our gardens this month.
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Beer of the Month - Belfast Lager

Author: Kristin Jensen

This series is all about Irish craft brews and, for June, our expert columnist and food blogger KRISTIN JENSEN introduces a Beer of the Month that’s made by one of Ireland’s longest running and most successful craft breweries - and in one of the country’s most scenic areas
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This Farming Life - June at Castlefarm

Author: Jenny Young

The Castlefarm garden is beginning to yield vegetables. Due to an especially busy spring calving this year sowing was delayed. However at last we are enjoying lettuce, courgettes and rocket. Cucumbers are appearing in the poytunnel as well as the first tomatoes.
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