I can’t remember so many Irish cookbooks ever having been published in the same year as have been brought out this year. Even though the worldwide publishing industry is taking a battering, just like every other industry, we seem to have an insatiable appetite for cookbooks, which continue to sell well. And as proof of […]
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A few years ago I was in Galway city for the first time, giving a talk with a typesetter friend about the freelance side of the publishing industry to the masters students at the university there. We got to Galway later than we’d expected and didn’t have time to go searching for lunch before our […]
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A little perk of being a cookbook editor is getting to make some of the recipes from a book before they make it to print. I don’t mean in a recipe testing capacity — that’s a different job entirely — but I like to tell myself that it’s for editorial research purposes. Not that I […]
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Think of the great cheeses of the world and you’ll probably think of France, Italy or England, but Ireland is quickly earning a place on that list with its farmhouse cheeses. The renaissance of Irish farmhouse cheesemaking started in the 1970s and 1980s and is now a thriving industry that’s recognised internationally. Our famous lush […]
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Reading Niamh Shields’s first book, Comfort & Spice, you get the feeling that she’s happiest when she’s in the kitchen — this is a woman who makes her own homemade cheese, butter, mayonnaise and wine vinegar, after all! An Irish expat living in London, Niamh writes the popular and award-winning blog Eat Like a Girl, […]
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When Catherine Fulvio isn’t busy cooking as the first guest chef from outside of the US at Washington’s annual Taste America on Capitol Hill or appearing on NBC’s The Today Show, she’s running her cookery school and B&B at Ballyknocken House, appearing in her own TV shows on RTÉ, giving demos at food festivals around […]
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A few months ago, someone was on Twitter asking for recommendations for where to bring visitors for good seafood in Kinsale, County Cork. About a dozen people replied, and everyone said the same thing — Fishy Fishy. So it’s no surprise that Martin’s Fishy Fishy Cookbook has already entered its second printing just a few […]
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Donal Skehan ticks all the boxes. He’s young, hip and even had a brief stint as a pop star before turning his attention exclusively on food. He’s also one of the new generation of food blog success stories who’s just published his second book, Kitchen Hero, and his corresponding new TV show is due to […]
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