Category: Books

  • IFWG Cookbook Sale

    With more than 60 members ranging from cookery authors to broadcasters and journalists, food stylists and recipe developers to magazine editors, the Irish Food Writers’ Guild are a diverse bunch. But if there’s one things that we have in common, it’s got to be a pretty mean collection of cookbooks built up over the years.…

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  • The Lettercollum Cookbook

    The Lettercollum Cookbook – Recipes from the Kitchen Project is a new cookbook launched this week, edited and published by Guild member Roz Crowley. The Lettercollum Kitchen Project, run by Karen Austin and Con McLoughlin, is a West Cork institution. For ten years it has been the jewel in the crown of Clonakilty; a bakery…

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  • Armagh Bramley Apples

    Georgina Campbell writes about one of Ireland’s much-loved, special food products, which has just been harvested at the end of last month – Armagh Bramley Apples. The special qualities of the Bramley’s Seedling have made it the most popular cooking apple in Britain and Ireland, and those grown in Northern Ireland’s ‘Orchard County’ are extra…

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  • Sharon Hearne-Smith’s New Cookbook, No Bake Baking

    Guild member Sharon Hearne-Smith’s new cookbook, No Bake Baking, is about to hit the shelves and cause a bit of a stir in the world of baking. The no-bake approach is perfect for novices, cooking with kids or anyone who’s short on time, with fast and easy ideas for every occasion. In No-Bake Baking, Sharon…

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  • Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards

    The Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards Cookbook has just hit the shelves. Published annually in spring, the cookbook features 30 finalist recipes from the annual cookery competition, alongside over one hundred recipe favourites from Easy Food magazine. (Edited by Dee Laffan, editor of Easy Food, and published by Zahra Publishing. Available in supermarkets and newsagents…

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  • Paul Flynn’s Family Food

    None other than IFWG Chairperson, Lizzie Gore-Grimes, has edited Lidl’s new cookbook, written by celebrated chef Paul Flynn of the award-winning Tannery Restaurant in Dungarvan. This gorgeous, family-friendly cookbook is stacked with easy-to-follow recipes that use inventive flavour combinations to impress, rather than fussy culinary technique. No matter how little time you have on your…

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  • Christmas Cookbooks

    Aoife Carrigy suggests a selection of home-grown Irish cookbooks from members of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild as the perfect Christmas gift for the foodie in your life… If you’re still looking for inspiration for deliciously thoughtful Christmas presents, many of our Irish Food Writers’ Guild members have homegrown cookbooks on the shelves this festive…

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