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Christmas TwaditionsWe all have our own Christmas traditions and the taste for tradition begins very young. No-one is more nostalgic about how you carry out Christmas than children. In our home it begins with decorating the tree, playing Phil Spector's Christmas album, and - always - drinking orange miel, warmed freshly squeezed orange juice, sweetened with honey. We asked our twitter comrades to tweet their own twaditions. Here are their heart warming stories: READ MORE |
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We asked some of our Twitter friends to send us a photos of "anything you can eat". The results make hungry reading (or viewing)... READ MORE |
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Book Review: Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine: René Redzepi (Phaidon)The reality of René Redzepi's wildly-praised second cookbook, Noma: Time & Place in Nordic Cuisine is that it's as much about seeing, as it is about cooking. The photography, by Ditte Isager, makes this clear ... READ MORE |
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Who's Who: Declan RyanDeclan Ryan is good for the public culture in a simple, elegant way: he makes it better. Not only does he make it better, he has made it better not just once, but twice. Back in the 1970's, he was the county's leading restaurateur, in Cork's Arbutus Lodge, his food a modern, contemporary cuisine that nevertheless reached back into Cork's culinary history for inspiration. He had a Michelin star as long ago now as 1974, the first in Ireland, awarded at a time when Michelin didn't reckon much on the country. His success was greeted with deafening silence from the media. When the late Egon Ronay gave him 3 stars, Ryan's local newspaper, The Cork Examiner, bestowed a single page 5 column of coverage. (Meanwhile it was front page in the London Times). Ryan's secret was to make ..... READ MORE |
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Who's Who in Irish FoodA biographical dictionary of the people behind Ireland's specialist food culture. This Who's Who is a snapshot of the many people leading their fields and it will be added to and updated regularly. READ MORE |
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The Bridgestone GuidesAll the best places to eat and stay, all the best food to taste. Perfect for all food lovers.
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Megabytes December 2010
Archive - all the best places to eat, shop and stay in Ireland. A local guide to local places.
