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Posted on Oct 29, 2011 in Do, IFBA | 10 comments

Irish Food Bloggers Association: happy birthday to us!

Irish Food Bloggers Association: happy birthday to us!
This time last year myself and Kristin of Edible Ireland/Dinner du Jour were just after launching the Irish Food Bloggers Association. We had spent months planning and designing and coding the website, with the help of Súil Design, and it was ready for its grand unveiling at the Savour Kilkenny...
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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 Jun 16, 2011 in Do, IFBA | 7 comments

Eating my way around Dublin

Eating my way around Dublin
How much eating can be packed into one day in Dublin? Well, if you take the earliest bus there, as I did last Thursday, quite a bit. A need for late breakfast/early lunch took myself and Kristin of Dinner du Jour – make sure you check out her fantastic new blog at Edible Ireland –  into the The...
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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 Jan 24, 2011 in IFBA, Print, Work | 8 comments

Irish Examiner: Welcome to my world

Irish Examiner: Welcome to my world
Music obsessives, election watchers, fashionistas and foodies – meet Ireland’s bloggers by Caroline Hennessy. As published in the Irish Examiner on Saturday 22 January. My name is Caroline and I am a blogger. Most particularly, I am a food blogger, addicted to taking photos of my meals and...
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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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Posted on Nov 7, 2010 in Food Events, IFBA | 8 comments

Playing with your food – and eating it: IFBA in Dublin

Playing with your food – and eating it: IFBA in Dublin
“He burns his nuts, I bake my rocks” Sharon Hearne Smith on the tricks (and Donal Skehan‘s occasional mistakes!) of the food styling world. Donal came out about his love for Cath Kidson, Sharon admitted that she was an OCD control freak and twenty food bloggers got tips on playing with...
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Posted on Nov 5, 2010 in Food Events, IFBA | 11 comments

Building a community: the Irish Food Bloggers Association

Building a community: the Irish Food Bloggers Association
Belatedly, my presentation from the IFBA launch at Savour Kilkenny‘s FoodCamp. I thought, on the eve of our second launch in Dublin (come meet us in L. Mulligan Grocer tomorrow night, Saturday 6 November!), it might be a suitable time to let you know the thinking behind Kristin and I setting up the...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2010 in Food Events, IFBA | 9 comments

Food, glorious Food(Camp)

Food, glorious Food(Camp)
Tweets and trends, coffee and conversation, information and inspiration: all in the mix at Savour Kilkenny‘s first Irish FoodCamp last Friday. It was a full on day. Not only were Dinner du Jour and I presenting a new Irish blogger resource but the schedule was crammed with talks on a variety of...
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