There is not much thought given to the pepper mill or ground pepper shaker on the table. It is just a given that the pepper should be...

I had the pleasure of eating a few buffets lately and they are always a challenge. I am not the most patient in a queue, then there is...

The recent news that we now have another taste to the five we already possess is big news in foodie world. Taste often gets confused with...

There is one much underestimated cuisine in Europe and that is Spanish. It has yet to rise unfairly to the international appreciation...

Halloween is a rather special day in Celtic culture as its Samhain or New Years eve in olden pagan times marking the end of the harvest...

As a foodie eating alone is one experience you get used to very quickly as you seek out culinary destinations while checking new places,...

I was reading about the digging of Pompeii in Italy and the almost untouched unearthed takeaway restaurant kitchen that would have served...

Hospitality is a lot better these days than when I started out forty years ago, legislation and welfare regulation is making what was a...

I do not look too much at cooking on the telly and on the phone it pops up on regular scrolls as the algorithms know all about any food...

I was recently listening to a young chef extol his hatred for the servers and dismissing their role out of hand as mere plate carriers...

It is only in the last few generations that we have a constant supply of food, in our luxury first world anyway. It was however not that...

It is at this time of year that gastronomy gets very excited with foragers arriving at kitchen back doors with baskets of mushrooms but...

I was observing the heat waves over the Med and how it might be devastating crops and livestock production in the hotter regions. In...

These days I get asked as much about diet as I do about cooking and with obesity at such high levels for all ages now it is a subject...

At this time of year I get the annual barrage of holiday value price comparisons between Ireland and the hot spots with online posts of...

Everyone visiting Ireland is encouraged to try all the food and drink associated with the country but there is one product that for me is...

As an old school purist and stickler for tradition I have had to endure the trendy comings and goings over the years in food. It took a...

I was using really fresh organic eggs given to me for a recipe lately and it had been a while since I had seen such quality, the whites...

I often get asked about the industrial standard plates, glasses, cutlery and cooking equipment I use privately that I have built up over...

The progress that Irish artisan cheese has made over the last few decades is astounding yet being able to buy it abroad is still a...