There is a great history to chef uniforms that led to what became the norm until relatively recently. The traditional stereotype image is...

Today is the annual ground hog day when you will hear all the chefs across the media being interviewed about making the perfect pancake...

It’s that time of year when pulses are set racing with everyone in a tizzy to find or satisfy a soul mate. I have always been as...

I always had a soft spot for butchers. My father’s family ran a shop back in the day where he often got drafted in for a few shifts as a...

Our daily bread was very much in the news last year when the pandemic lockdowns had just turned a whole new generation into home bakers....

They are trying to excavate and bring the remains of Irish-Franco hero Patrick Sarsfield back from Belgium to bury him in his native...

Now that Brexit is not for turning it got me thinking of all the complications that having two competing systems of measuring has done to...

There is an old saying in food that in order to know how to eat one must first learn how to wait. When you think about that expression it...

As a typical Capricorn I tend to think of goats at this time of year naturally enough. The other time is at the Puck Fair in summer when...

We are well into the festive season now and we have it pretty much down to an annual routine with all our foodie traditions so much...

I think most people like a sizzling sausage and nearly every country has their own versions of what is one of the world’s oldest...

I was talking to a continental chef here about our abundance of lake and river fish and how it is seldom eaten in homes or restaurants....

We Irish love our salt and so many still lash it onto the dinner without tasting a morsel believing it has not been seasoned at all...

I was reminded lately just how so much of the world does not subscribe to the option that wine is the ultimate accompaniment to food. We...

I first ate rice when a Chinese restaurant opened locally to me in the 1970’s; it was still alien to Irish households back then except...

The latest bird flu epidemic and the subsequent potential shortage of turkey have already got the minds of the public focusing on the c...

At this time of year the nuts are in abundance but squirrels are not the only ones storing them up as we like to eat them too and have...

I do like this time of year when the mushrooms are popping up all over the place. Ireland being a wet, boggy and woody country is perfect...

One of my earliest culinary memories is watching my mother stirring big pots of homemade jam and marmalade on the stove, old pillow cases...

It was only when I visited La Rochelle in France as a foodie teenager while staying on a nearby farm during the summer that I learned...