The Donegal Town Annual Christmas Food Event ‘A Little Taste of Christmas’ will be held this Sunday, 25th November 2012, from 11am to 6.30pm in the Abbey Hotel , Donegal Town.
This festive fun day marks the launch of the Christmas period in Donegal Town, in conjuction with the official switching on of Christmas Lights, on the Diamond in the centre of town, at 7.30pm.  Continue reading »

One of my favorite songs is Sting’s Englishman in New York. Particularly the lyric “I don’t drink coffee, I drink tea my dear.” That describes me perfectly. Well, kind of. I drink coffee on occasion, but I prefer tea. Specifically, Earl Grey tea. The aroma of bergamot oranges instantly relaxes me, and the warmth of the drink just about puts me in a trance. So, I thought I’d share with you how I go about making the perfect pot of tea.  Continue reading »

…..a Corkman’s testimony to the Irish Folklore Commission declared that even after the Great Hunger ended, “Old people said it was God’s will to have the famine come. They abused fine food when they had it aplenty.”
And if it were not God’s will, then it was the work of God’s dark opposite. It was said that an old woman of Rossport in County Mayo, returning home, saw her potatoes rotting and.  Continue reading »

In its original sense, a mojo is a small bag containing one or more magical items, traditionally made for an individual who conceals it on their person at all times in order to have some desired magical effect. For every dedicated blogger, there is almost always some occasionally mysterious and generally non-financial something – a mojo if you will – which fuels their blogging fire.  Continue reading »

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Food and Drink Spotting
Taste of the Week!Mozzarella salad at Toons Bridge Cafe
Another Euro Beer goes stateside!
Duvel, the classic Belgian beer, is gone stateside. And old world aficionados, remembering what happened to the original bud, will be worried. Should they be? Read on.
“Last month, after years of wrangling and pleading, Belgian Duvel finally decided to unveil its long-secret.  Continue reading »

Special offers at Aldi
Special offers at Centra
Special offers at Dunnes
Special offers at Lidl
Special offers at Londis
Special offers at Mace
Special offers at Spar
Special offers at Superquinn(click on the “value instore” tab for the latest offers)
Special offers at SuperValu
Special offers at Tesco.  Continue reading »

We launched curiouswines.ie in 2008 with the goal of making buying wine online as simple as possible. Central to this was our selection of pre-mixed cases where new customers could try us out, and established customers could always go back for the best value, carefully chosen selections in our portfolio.
We’ve just revamped our classic Curious Old World, New World, Red and White mixes, and brought down the price on the top-selling Old world mix to just €89 including delivery.  Continue reading »

Today I  am trying to orgonise that the Chefs in lalibela have axcess to the Liberary as the only place for it is in the Institute of Technology  in the lower part of the town.They are not that many books as the cost of geting them over is very expensive so we can only bring a few at a time.  Continue reading »

Our 4th annual Christmas wine fair is THIS SATURDAY in The Bowery, Cork. If you missed the announcement full details are here, including how to get tickets.
We’re delighted to confirm a wonderfully eclectic selection of award-winning, artisan food producers to complement the extensive range of wines available for tasting on the day.
Anthony Creswell – Ummera Smoked Products

Ummera has been smoking Irish organically reared salmon since 1996.  Continue reading »

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As recipes go, this is one that just happened by chance. Having repeated it a few times now I’m happy to share the Clementine Curd Tartlet with you. Basically I was in the local Grocer’s on Sunday and noticed that they had a great deal of €2 for a bag of 10 clementines.  Yes I…  Continue reading »

Good Food Ireland was established by Margaret Jeffares in November 2006, after identifying a gap and opportunity in the development of a strong food and tourism proposition for the island of Ireland. The aim was to link the agriculture & food sector with the hospitality sector and it has worked very successfully!  Continue reading »

Good Food Ireland was established by Margaret Jeffares in November 2006, after identifying a gap and opportunity in the development of a strong food and tourism proposition for the island of Ireland. The aim was to link the agriculture & food sector with the hospitality sector and it has worked very successfully!  Continue reading »

Wednesday Market 
I am working with Connect Ethiopia and the Stay Lalibela project in Ethiopia for the last couple of years this is on my way to work Wednesday morning.  Continue reading »

It’s been a while since I’ve written a restaurant review, not that we haven’t been eating out or that there hasn’t been anything worthwhile reviewing. Given the current economic situation, it’s great to see the large number of new restaurants that have opened this year, and greater still to see how well they’re doing. And with Christmas just over a month away, they’ll hopefully be busier than ever, which is a win/win for everybody.  Continue reading »

Thanks to our incredibly involved Recipe4Living Twitter followers and Recipe4Living Facebook fans, we learned what a lot of you love to do for the Thanksgiving holiday. Keep reading to learn more, and let us know in the comments if you disagree!
I know I was surprised to learn that most of our readers cook their stuffing outside the turkey! What was most surprising to you?  Continue reading »

Champagne Dinner at Greene’s
Bruno Paillard comes to town
A dinner with a difference at Greene’s of McCurtain Street this week. Not alone was champagne served with each course but it was also used as an ingredient in each.
This marriage of the wine-making skills at Bruno Paillard and the cooking skills of Green’s French chef Frederic Desormeaux meant we enjoyed a super evening.
Scallop.  Continue reading »

Our final trip in Sri Lanka could only be in search of one thing – a cup of the black stuff. Ceylon tea. Kettle in hand we set off from Colombo for the hill country early this morning. A three hour drive. Or so I thought.

Somehow I confused three with six. Let’s blame the heat. Ahem.

But I’d have put up with many more hours for the breathtaking views of lush green plantations and waterfalls.

Along the way we stopped to visit the Glenloch Tea Factory.  Continue reading »

Proving to be real customer favourites over the last few years, our Christmas mixed cases are designed to make the Christmas wine buying as easy and as great value as possible. We’ve put together two cases again this year, a Curious Christmas and a Deluxe Christmas mix, both with free, next day delivery anywhere in the country.
CURIOUS CHRISTMAS MIX
It’s our biggest-selling mixed case of the year so we make sure to pack our Curious Christmas Case with as much value and WOW as possible.  Continue reading »