Posts Tagged ‘tomatoes’

James Whelan Butchers: Eat Fresh

Tuesday, July 15th, 2014 in Foodie Articles | No Comments »

If you’re just up it might take a second to wrap your brain around this but stick with me.  New research has just been released that suggests people are not fat because they are lazy and don’t move but instead are lazy and don’t move because they are fat!  It took me a while too, […]

James Whelan Butchers: The Art of Salad

Friday, July 12th, 2013 in Foodie Articles | No Comments »

I think it’s safe to say that current generations growing up in Ireland will undoubtedly have a much more sophisticated palate than those of us in the vicinity of the half century mark.    What we have had to work hard at in order to re-educate our taste buds, they take very much for granted.  I […]

James Whelan Butchers: The Wolf Peach

Tuesday, August 14th, 2012 in Foodie Articles | No Comments »

It’s hard to believe that some of our most common and versatile foods today were once viewed with great suspicion and sometimes grown purely as ornamental garden fruit because they were thought to be fatally poisonous. For a long time this was the story of the common tomato. There it sat, ripening on the vine, […]

James Whelan Butchers: Down Mexico Way

Friday, July 6th, 2012 in Foodie Articles | No Comments »

Despite the incessant rain, the wind and the very unseasonal weather, in true Irish spirit I declare that it is the summer. You may still have to wear your wellies and a raincoat in order to use that shiny new bucket and shovel at the beach, but wear them we will in order to indulge […]