There’s no doubt about it, the Irish mammy is a formidable force. And the Irish mammy of a son is a particularly formidable force. Add into that equation that the son is a big, lumbering 18-year-old and the mammy is a pocket-sized fusspot and it makes for nothing short of pure entertainment. If you want [...]
It’s fair to say that there have traditionally been a few areas where Ireland could have done with a bit of help from outside experts. First of all, we really could have done with some style advice. As a milk-skinned, mousy-haired people, we need all the help we can get, even if we are a [...]
Greg Baxter says that as summer approaches once again, our barbecue efforts are doomed to failure because we have such abysmal weather, we use the wrong grills and we always cremate our burgers and steaks. There’s nothing so anti-climactic in the world as the Irish barbecue season. It seems to end before it ever began, [...]
Handmade cheeses, exquisite silky chocolate, fragrant honey, tender dry-aged beef, succulent mountain lamb, traditional bread freshly baked by hand, Irish salmon smoked over woodchips from noble oaks felled in local woods. This is not exactly the usual fare on a supermarket shelf. At any of the farmers’ markets that have sprung up around the country [...]
Where does this expression ‘Chicken soup for the soul’ come from? Chicken soup, in its purest form, as a clear broth with vegetables and chicken meat is also known as ‘the Jewish Penicillin’ and must therefore be as old as the hills themselves. There is even a website called jewishpenicillin.com which claims that “Dr Stephen [...]
A recent survey published by Bord Bia stated yet another fact that we shouldn’t really be alarmed by, relating to food and eating habits in our new, ‘shocked-into-the-future’ Ireland. In urban areas of Ireland, not specified but I’m sure we can do the sums, a large percentage of families sit down to two separate meals [...]
As meals go, it was entirely ordinary. Absolutely nothing special. Tossed salad with a bit of smoked salmon and a few other little salady bits and pieces. Ordinary. But for me, it was the most satisfying meal I’ve had in ages. And not because I was particularly hungry or not because I felt noble and [...]
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