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Posted on Feb 3, 2009 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 0 comments

Foodtalk on Newstalk: MP3s online

Foodtalk on Newstalk: MP3s online
If you’re interested in listening back to any of the Foodtalk shows that were broadcast on Newstalk over the last six weeks (no more sending text alerts online – my Sunday nights have suddenly gotten very quiet!), they’re now all available as podcasts from the Newstalk website. You can see...
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Posted on Jan 23, 2009 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 5 comments

Foodtalk: Garden

Foodtalk: Garden
Sunday sees the last in the Foodtalk series with Garden being the theme of the final show. We travelled to Clonegal, Co Carlow to meet with Henry Stone of the Sha-Roe Bistro and then to Nohoval in Cork to talk to Ultan Walsh of Gort na Nain Vegetarian Guesthouse and Organic Farm. I stayed at Gort na Nain...
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Posted on Jan 8, 2009 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 0 comments

Foodtalk: Podcasts

Foodtalk: Podcasts
Just discovered that Foodtalk: Spices is available to listen to as a podcast from the Newstalk podcasts page – Foodtalk on Newstalk is at the top of the page so you can’t miss it! Check out Conor’s Bandon Blog for useful information on listening and subscribing...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2009 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 6 comments

Foodtalk: Spices

Foodtalk: Spices
On Newstalk 106-108fm tonight at 9.30pm the third of my radio shows on food – Foodtalk: Spices – will be broadcast. This was one of the real wild cards of the series. Most of the other categories were easy to figure out: Livestock was a given, as was Dairy and Seafood. Being interested in foraging and...
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Posted on Dec 31, 2008 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 0 comments

Foodtalk: Seafood

Foodtalk: Seafood
I was thrilled to hear the first Foodtalk on Christmas Day at 1.30pm, just as we were basting the turkey, making gravy and chopping vegetables for dinner.That programme – very topically – was on Livestock, focusing on Irish pork. Jacque Barry (Jacques Restaurant) talked about her love of good...
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Posted on Dec 25, 2008 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 0 comments

…and another door opens

Don’t forget to tune in to my first Foodtalk programme on Newstalk 106-108 fm which will be broadcast today at 1.30pm. Happy Christmas!
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Posted on Dec 22, 2008 in Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 2 comments

Foodtalk in the Irish Times

Foodtalk in the Irish Times
We were thrilled with the wee mention of Foodtalk in Saturday’s Irish Times – click here to read the piece (or continue reading below) and see another picture of Kieran and Sean Murphy‘s cutest little ice cream snowmen. Just in case you didn’t yet know, the series starts on Newstalk...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2008 in Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 0 comments

Gubbeen newsletter

Gubbeen newsletter
Gubbeen have started sending out a great email flyer recently to their mailing list with information on their well-known cheese, Clovis’ garden, cooking the fabulous Gubbeen hams, the rare breed chickens that Giana rears around the farmyard and how Fingal makes Gubbeen Salami. Fingal is one of the...
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Posted on Dec 10, 2008 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 2 comments

Foodtalk on Newstalk launch

Foodtalk on Newstalk launch
On Monday night we launched Foodtalk on Newstalk at Thornton’s Restaurant on Stephen’s Green. It was great to see so many of the people that I interviewed on my trips around the country there – Fingal Ferguson came armed with cheese and lots of other Gubbeen goodies, Green Saffron‘s Arun...
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Posted on Dec 8, 2008 in Do, Foodtalk on Newstalk, Radio | 0 comments

Foodtalk on Newstalk

It started with a phone call in the early summer. The brothers behind Soundsdoable wanted to know if I was interested in working with them on a series of radio documentaries about food. I didn’t need to be asked twice. It was the start of an intense and fascinating time – journeys around Ireland...
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Posted on Feb 19, 2008 in Bake, Do, Radio | 3 comments

RTÉ Radio 1: Baking and breadmaking on Mooney

I was on RTÉ Radio 1‘s Mooney programme yesterday talking about baking and breadmaking – if you’re interested, you can listen here (I’m on after the 4pm news!) and here are some links to recipes that I either mentioned, or intended on mentioning, during the show. My ever-popular...
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