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Congratulations to Caroline Lakes, 5 Madden Road, South Circular, Dublin 8.

In the third of our series on healthy seasonal seafood, Dietitian Paula Mee offers a dish rich in calcium and iron and promises you will be ‘strong to the finish if you eats your spinach’.

In the second of our series on healthy seasonal seafood, Dietitian Paula Mee offers a recipe for fish cakes with chilli and coriander sauce, a dish low in fat and rich in folates and vitamin C.

In the first of a 12-week series featuring seasonal seafood and vegetables, Dietitian Paula Mee serves up a healthy recipe for baked hake with a tomato and herb dressing.

This prize is valued at over €2,500 and includes two nights’ bed and breakfast for two in a period suite with a five-course dining experience on an evening of choice in Mount Falcon’s 2xAA Rosette Award winning Kitchen Restaurant.

Fashion is cyclical but there are some vintage trends Giovanni Morelli hopes he’d never see again, although he is okay with returning to a favourite “lunch place” and the  harmful effects of light drinking debate.

Giovanni Morelli was pleasantly surprised on his recent travels by some Russian sparkling wine, but had mixed emotions on his return to Tuscany.

As he contemplates his homecoming, Giovanni Morelli ponders the issue of freedom of expression on controversial wine labels and considers the linea della storia tags to be in bad taste at the very least.

I must thank Dr Brendan Kelly (Mater, Dublin) — via Dr Aiden Collins (St Vincent’s, Fairview) — for my copy of this lovely book.

While giving advice on reading the fine print of champagne labels and speculating over the 2003 harvest, Giovanni Morelli wonders if the absence of stress — and a daily glass of wine — might be the secret to a long and happy life.