Monthly Archives: March 2010
Sunday Roast
A little like clothing, the great thing about food these days is that anything goes really. Our purest attitudes to meal times and the type of food suitable to certain times of the day and special occasions have largely been … Continue reading
Sea of Change
Wine keeps you slim, fruit makes you fat and eggs are now a super food! (I wonder does that include Cadbury’s Eggs, given the season!) If you go back a few short years juicing fruit was hailed as a cure all for … Continue reading
Handle With Care
Irish food history is often dominated by the Potato Famine leading us to believe that spuds were historically a huge part of the Irish diet. This is untrue. First of all people died during the Famine because of oppressive politics … Continue reading
No Man Is an Island
Reading a recently published memoir of an Irish childhood in the early fifties, I was struck that we have regressed in terms of human relationship despite all our technological progress. In the book the writer recalled his Grandmother’s house where neighbours … Continue reading
Discounting the Truth
As individuals we are defined by our personal values. If you asked me what value I remember most about my Grandmother for example, I could say without hesitation, ‘honesty’. “Tell the truth and shame the devil”, was her mantra. The crime was … Continue reading