Category: Tributes
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Remembering: Charlotte Coleman-Smith
Read more: Remembering: Charlotte Coleman-SmithFood writer and member of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, Charlotte Coleman-Smith passed away in December. Here, she is remembered in print and by her fellow guild member, former colleague and IFWG Outgoing Chair, Aoife Carrigy. “Charlotte was a contributor to FOOD&WINE Magazine during my time there as Deputy Editor and I always enjoyed subbing…
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Tribute: Remembering the late Mrs Allen
Read more: Tribute: Remembering the late Mrs AllenThe renowned “godmother of Irish food”, Mrs. Myrtle Allen, passed away in June 2018. Founder of Ballymaloe House, wife, mother, chef, restaurateur, teacher, mentor, advocate and champion… The Irish Food Writers’ Guild remember their founder and fellow member. “It’s impossible to overstate the impact that Mrs Allen single-handedly had on Irish food and hospitality. While…
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Appreciation: Biddy White Lennon
Read more: Appreciation: Biddy White LennonWe were deeply saddened by the passing of our fellow Guild member, food writer, life-long ambassador for Irish food and, not least of all, our friend, Biddy White Lennon. We’d like to share the following thoughts and memories of Biddy from fellow Guild members by way of remembering this great woman whom we were all…
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Our Deepest Sympathy: Paulo Tullio
Read more: Our Deepest Sympathy: Paulo TullioOn behalf of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, I would like to convey our sympathies to the family and friends of the late Paolo Tullio and express the high regard in which we held him. We share the sense of loss that will be felt by all who care about standards in Irish restaurants and…
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Remembering: Honor Moore
Read more: Remembering: Honor MooreGuest ‘Food for Thought’ writer Kieran Fagan remembers the late Honor Moore, former President of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild. Honor Moore, the doyenne of Irish food writers for more than half a century, died on May 29, 2013, a day after her 90th birthday. She was president of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild and…
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Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industry
Read more: Remembering the late Gerry Galvin: chef, food writer, poet and dear friend to many in the Irish food industryBy Georgina Campbell. It was with great sadness that we learned of the untimely death of Gerry Galvin earlier this year – friend, colleague and inspiration for so many years. It’s hard to believe he’s gone, he was a gentlemanly giant of the hospitality world, quietly involved with so many good things right up to…
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Remembering the late David Tiernan of Glebe Brethan cheese
Read more: Remembering the late David Tiernan of Glebe Brethan cheeseBy Aoife Carrigy. On Monday 25th February 2013, on what should have been the 55th birthday of the late and much lamented David Tiernan, many of Ireland’s broad family of food producers, promoters, writers, chefs and farmers travelled across the country to Dunleer, Co Louth. They came to pay their last respects to a man…
