Tag: travel
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A Great Day in Slane at the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Summer Outing 2013
Read more: A Great Day in Slane at the Irish Food Writers’ Guild Summer Outing 2013By Aoife Carrigy. Where can you go that’s less than an hour’s drive from Dublin and where – within a five mile radius of one picturesque town – you could gather together the makings of not one but several great meals? That’s what we wondered when putting together ideas for the Irish Food Writers’ Guild…
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What Is Good Food?
Read more: What Is Good Food?By Lucy Madden. What is good food? There is no consensus on this – far from it – and unlike the universal acknowledgement of what, say, constitutes good scenery, ideas of what contributes to a good meal differ widely. This is strange in some ways because you might assume that human bodies everywhere have the…
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Gourmet Cooking Experience in France
Read more: Gourmet Cooking Experience in FranceBy Jeanne Quigley. When I saw the ad ‘Places available for journalists on a Gourmet Explorer Cookery Course in France’ I jumped at the opportunity. Five days in the kitchen with a Michelin-starred chef and a Chef d’Excellence – what could be better? I contacted owner Moira Martindale immediately and a couple of weeks later,…