Good Food

After meeting Patricia Michelson last year, I’m delighted to announce I’ve  been invited to speak at the upcoming Beaujolais Noveau event at La Fromagerie, Moxon Street, London on November 15th. The  La Fromagerie is run by Patricia and Danny Michelson and as the name suggests, they specialize in farmhouse cheeses and have been doing so since […]

If I had to sum up my personal philosophy on life I think I could reduce it to one word and that’s ‘balance’. While it sounds simple, achieving perfect equilibrium on the scales of life requires quite a degree of focus and discipline. I’m not perfect and many times fall short of my set balance […]

I totally understand if the headline, “fat free sausage” caused a wrinkle in your brain. After all the very idea of a fat free sausage is practically an oxymoron. Personally I never thought I could use those words together in a spoken sentence, let alone actually taste one in reality but that day has finally […]

The other day a request came across my desk inviting me to speak to a group of potential start up business about running a food business. One of the headings they asked me to speak on was, “How to keep the offering fresh”. This had nothing to do with shelf life or meat refrigeration. It […]

It never ceases to amaze me the number of teenagers that can’t cook or at least claim they can’t. They certainly won’t starve as they are capable of placing cornflakes in a bowl, pop tarts in a toaster, a ready meal in a microwave or ordering a takeaway, but when it comes to long term […]

It was inevitable, the dreaded return to school and routine had to happen eventually but why so early? The government have not only picked our pockets of spare cash but they’ve shortened the summer holidays by at least a week! Remember the days when the school year began on the first Monday or Tuesday after […]

I had the most wonderful afternoon recently, at a long table dinner in the glass house at Ballymaloe Cookery School, Shanagarry, Co. Cork. I’ve been at the cookery school a number of times before, but this time we received a guided tour of the school and the gardens both formal and vegetable by Darina Allen. […]

Over 6,200 new jobs could be created in Ireland if households each spent €4 more every week on Guaranteed Irish goods and services, a new survey has claimed. Carried out by Amárach Research on the impact of Guaranteed Irish on the economy, the study indicates that the average Irish household spends just under €16 a […]

There was quite a stir caused here recently in Clonmel, when the Big Green Egg double-decker bus arrived at the shop. I’ve owned a Big Green Egg for over a year now and as many of my followers on Twitter will know, I’m a huge advocate. It’s a different style of cooking, but develops flavours […]

  We share a great deal in common with our nearest neighbour the UK. We don’t think anything of watching British television or reading British magazines and embracing the texts and programmes as our own. We’ll watch cookery programmes, largely presented by British chefs and cooks and we forget we are watching something from another […]

We’re delighted to announce the launch of our Wagyu beef counter. Growing our Wagyu beef has been something of an epic journey and we’re delighted to be able to share it with you. We have limited stock which is chilling nicely in our cold room and available for delivery in the next 2 weeks. To […]

The weather is strange at present, even by Irish standards. The rain is expected but the yo-yo-ing temperatures are beyond odd. Normally at this time of year the summer clothes are well and truly out, even if the day is slightly grey and overcast, as it is usually mild. Despite the longer, brighter evenings there […]