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Posted on Oct 18, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 0 comments

It’s all about the (Eight Degrees Brewing) beer

It’s all about the (Eight Degrees Brewing) beer
A few Eight Degrees Brewing and beer-related updates… We all – the Husband’s parents are visiting at the moment – gathered around the radio on Sunday morning to hear the Aussie do us proud as he talked about Eight Degrees Brewing on Today FM’s Sunday Business Show. Also on the...
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Posted on Oct 14, 2011 in Cookery Books, Do, Food Events, Read | 2 comments

Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland: A Celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin

Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland: A Celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin
If you’re a cheese fan, watch out for the forthcoming Farmhouse Cheese and Craft Beer Weekend which is taking place across the country during the October Bank Holiday weekend. There is more information on the events and, if you’re interested in participating at home, some beer and...
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Posted on Oct 11, 2011 in Do, Food Events | 4 comments

Blas na hÉireann winners 2011

Blas na hÉireann winners 2011
I was sorry that I didn’t make it to this year’s Blas na hÉireann National Irish Food Awards at the Dingle Food and Wine Festival – the Small Girl‘s late arrival put paid to that! –  but delighted to see that fellow blogger Gillian O’Leary of Chocolate Here won two...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2011 in Do, Food Events, IFBA | 4 comments

Irish food photography workshop

Irish food photography workshop
Ask food bloggers to bring something sweet to have with coffee and just look what you get: a mouthwatering array of beautifully baked and lovingly packaged treats. And they were just the icing on the cake during a day of food photography organised by the ever-helpful Maeve Desmond at Bord Bia. Between...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 4 comments

Savouring beer, food – and clouds

Savouring beer, food – and clouds
Cloud spotting and craft beer? It’s all about savouring the moment – and savouring the flavours – according to the Eight Degrees Brewing Husband at the start of the beer and food matching event, which was held in Skibbereen last week to raise funds for the Irish Cloud Festival. Our aim, and this...
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Posted on Jul 4, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 6 comments

Cloud spotting – and beer: Thursday 7 July

Cloud spotting – and beer: Thursday 7 July
Just back from some down time near Union Hall – but I have a good excuse to head west again this week. The Husband and I will be at the West Cork Hotel in Skibbereen on Thursday, 7 July, for a craft beer and food matching evening. The event is being organised by Sally McKenna of The Bridgestone...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2011 in Brewing and beer, Do, Food Events | 6 comments

Bloom 2011 – and beer

Bloom 2011 – and beer
Howling Gale Ale from Eight Degrees Brewing, TJ Crowe‘s pulled pork rolls and Ed Hick‘s bacon jam: good things to drink, eat and take home from Bloom 2011. It was a weekend of appreciating good food and, from my homebase in the beer tent (or Bloom Inn, to give it its correct name) lots of great...
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Posted on Jun 6, 2011 in Do, Food Events, IFBA | 2 comments

A taste of Spain: Campo Viejo Tapas Trail

A taste of Spain: Campo Viejo Tapas Trail
The best thing about travel is the opportunity to eat new things. I’ve gone to Morocco with visions of sweet-savoury tagines dancing in my head, a stop over in Kuala Lumpur means devouring plates of roti canai with mugs of teh tarik and, when I went to Barcelona with the Sister, I did plenty of tapas,...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2011 in Cook, Food Events, Food for Friends, IFBA | 4 comments

Seomra Blog Bia at Totally Tipp: Inch House Black Pudding and Caramelised Onion Tart

Seomra Blog Bia at Totally Tipp: Inch House Black Pudding and Caramelised Onion Tart
The Totally Tipperary Food Festival, a weekend packed with food from the Tipperary Food Producers, cookery demos and workshops will be taking place in the grounds of Cloughjordan House at the end of June. As part of the festival, Seomra Blog Bia, which is based on the very successful Salon du Blog Culinaire...
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Posted on Apr 20, 2011 in Do, Food Events, IFBA | 5 comments

IFBA/Bord Bia/From Plate to Page Cook-Off

IFBA/Bord Bia/From Plate to Page Cook-Off
Every time I meet up with Kristin on Irish Food Blogger Association business we seem to manage to include plenty of eating opportunities. Take last week. Before the Bord Bia/From Plate to Page cook-off at Cooks Academy on Thursday night we had already paid a visit to Murphys’ Ice Cream on Wicklow...
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Posted on Mar 15, 2011 in Eating Out, Food Events, IFBA | 6 comments

The best of Inishowen, Irish food – and the IFBA

The best of Inishowen, Irish food – and the IFBA
We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into. A simple idea – organising an Irish Food Blogger Association dinner at Harry’s Bar and Restaurant – got out of hand very quickly, in the best possible way. When Kristin got in contact with Donal Doherty in Harry’s to get the ball...
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Posted on Feb 14, 2011 in Food Events | 4 comments

Valentine’s Day Blog Awards nominations

Valentine’s Day Blog Awards nominations
The perfect Valentine’s Day surprise? After a day away from the computer, coming home to find that Bibliocook: All About Food has been nominated in the food and drink category for this year’s Irish Blog Awards. And I’m in good company! Check out the list below and take a good look around...
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Posted on Feb 8, 2011 in Food Events | 0 comments

Clonakilty by Candlelight…and other good eating in Dublin

Clonakilty by Candlelight…and other good eating in Dublin
It was an eating weekend in Dublin. Kristin of Dinner du Jour and I were there on Friday night to attend Clonakilty by Candlelight, a pop-up restaurant which ran for three nights last week and is continuing for another three from this Thursday. I don’t want to write too much about the whole event...
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Posted on Nov 25, 2010 in Food Events | 0 comments

Tipperary Food Producers and the Twitter Panel

Tipperary Food Producers and the Twitter Panel
Two weeks ago, on 10 November, the Tipperary Food Producers put together a spectacular Cookery Extravaganza in Clonmel. I was there as a member of a Twitter Panel who, as well as Tweeting and recording – both audio and video – on the night, also blogged about it afterwards. My account of the...
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Posted on Nov 22, 2010 in Food Events, IFBA | 3 comments

IFBA Milk Market Meet

IFBA Milk Market Meet
When artisan preserve-maker Theresa Storey of The Green Apron first set up stall at the Limerick Milk Market, geese were still being killed and plucked to order and there were always piles of feathers in the corners. This was in 1977 and she was there helping her mother, the family’s first “jam...
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