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Posted on Dec 15, 2010 in Read, Work | 0 comments

Lyric fm: Chocolate at Christmas – 300 years ago

Lyric fm: Chocolate at Christmas – 300 years ago
It wouldn’t be at all unusual to come across something like Chocolate Cream or Whipped Chocolate Syllabub on a modern day menu. What is surprising is that these are dishes that may have been eaten at an Irish Christmas celebration during the 1700s, at least from the evidence of Mary Cannon’s...
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Posted on Dec 6, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

Food From Plenty by Diana Henry

Food From Plenty by Diana Henry
Ever since the sunshine soaked warmth of Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons I’ve been a fan of Diana Henry’s food writing. Her follow ups – Roast Figs, Sugar Snow (warming dishes from colder climes, perfect for this kind of weather) and the does-what-it-says-on-the-tin Cook Smart (the sausages...
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Posted on Nov 15, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 5 comments

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson 

Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home by Nigella Lawson 
Kitchen arrived at the cottage just before a recent weekend where I was the kind of unwell that makes you want to curl up on the couch with a mug of hot chocolate and a good book. I picked up Kitchen – carefully, I didn’t want to drop the hot chocolate, and it is a Big Book – and it was the...
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Posted on Oct 20, 2010 in Read | 5 comments

An Irish Butcher Shop by Pat Whelan

An Irish Butcher Shop by Pat Whelan
Irish butchers are coming out from behind the counter. No longer content with just selling quality meat, they’re now talking about it as well. They’re telling people exactly where that particular joint comes from, how it is raised, humanely slaughtered and properly aged before it is handed over....
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Posted on Oct 5, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

Itsa Cookbook by Domini Kemp

Itsa Cookbook by Domini Kemp
I’ve been a Domini Kemp fan since she and her sister, Peaches, opened the first Itsabagel in Dublin’s Epicurean Food Hall. I fell in love with the Mountaineer bagel at first bite and Itsabagel became a regular port of call as well as the unanimous office choice when I was picking up lunch for...
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Posted on Sep 25, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Leon: Naturally Fast Food by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent

Leon: Naturally Fast Food by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent
Since the first Leon cookbook arrived at the cottage, it hasn’t been allowed to leave the kitchen. Crammed with whole food ideas and healthy, seasonal dishes, all the food is tempting and very, very tasty. The Indian Parsnip Soup is one of those recipes that is in constant rotation, Little Missy loves...
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Posted on Aug 30, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 2 comments

Catherine’s Italian Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio

Catherine’s Italian Kitchen by Catherine Fulvio
A gentle introduction to Italian cooking, Catherine’s Italian Kitchen is the companion book to Catherine Fulvio’s well-received television series, which was nominated for a World Food Media Award earlier this year. Fulvio, who runs the well regarded Ballyknocken Cookery School at her family home...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Gregg’s Favourite Puddings by Gregg Wallace

Gregg’s Favourite Puddings by Gregg Wallace
Not having a television, I had never heard of Gregg Wallace before Gregg’s Favourite Puddings landed on the doorstep. A co-presenter of BBC show Masterchef, apparently he is well known for his sweet tooth, and this book is like a greatest hits of the pudding world. On the lighter side of things, there...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2010 in Food Books, Read | 2 comments

Food Rules by Michael Pollan

Food Rules by Michael Pollan
I am a big fan of Michael Pollan’s writing. I was first grabbed by 2008′s In Defence of Food, which led me to The Omnivore’s Dilemma from 2006. These books – absorbing, fascinating, infuriating and entertaining – are great reading. Pollan may be writing about weighty things...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 1 comment

Shrewd Food by Elizabeth Carty

Shrewd Food by Elizabeth Carty
There are times when a book arrives at exactly the right time. Elizabeth Carty’s Shrewd Food, with its focus on – as the subtitle says – a new way of shopping, cooking and eating, is that book. As Carthy points out in her introduction, food does not have to be expensive to be good and...
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Posted on May 18, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 0 comments

Tana’s Kitchen Secrets by Tana Ramsay

Tana’s Kitchen Secrets by Tana Ramsay
Simple, accessible recipes are Tana Ramsay’s hallmark and that hasn’t changed in her latest book, Tana’s Kitchen Secrets. Unlike her superchef husband, Ramsay’s family-orientated recipes – she has four children to cater for – are all of the easily achievable,...
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Posted on May 5, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 5 comments

Irish Seaweed Kitchen by Prannie Rhatigan

Irish Seaweed Kitchen by Prannie Rhatigan
How do you make seaweed sexy? Take a passionate woman who happens to be an expert forager and cook, add a strong sense of place – the Sligo coast – scatter with a selection of recipes from well known (Domini Kemp, Hugo Arnold) and local Irish chefs (Brid Torrades of Sligo’s Tobergal Lane...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2010 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide by John & Sally McKenna

The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide by John & Sally McKenna
The ninth edition of the Bridgestone Irish Food Guide has arrived and it’s overflowing with smokehouses and bakeries, markets and farmshops, gastropubs and country houses. Packed with, as they say, “all the good stuff and only the good stuff”, John and Sally McKenna, together with their...
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Posted on Mar 25, 2010 in Cookery Books, Read | 6 comments

The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews

The Country Cooking of Ireland by Colman Andrews
If Failte Ireland want to use just one thing to promote Ireland overseas, The Country Cooking of Ireland is the book that they need to thrust into the hands of potential tourists.  Writer Colman Andrews has impeccable pedigree – one of the founders of Saveur, the author of books on Catalan, Italian...
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Posted on Mar 16, 2010 in Bake, Read | 6 comments

St Patrick’s Day: Potato Apple Tart

St Patrick’s Day: Potato Apple Tart
With St Patrick’s Day being tomorrow, one’s thoughts turn to food. Specifically food of an Irish sort, which includes, naturally enough, all things potato. So when I was reading through my recently acquired copy of Margaret Bates’ Talking about Cakes with an Irish and Scottish Accent, her...
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