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Your West Cork Holiday
Your West Cork Holiday
So, it is the middle of your 2008 summer West Cork sojourn, and the West Cork weather is doing just exactly what it is doing today: Force 6 gales, and rain. What to do? No problem: our little West Cork guide will provide you with both shelter and succour.

Skibbereen: the coffee shop in Field's supermarket is only excellent, and great for kids.
Around the corner, Siobhan has moved the excellent Kalbo's Bistro across the street from the original site, and it's another great place for families.

Post one blog on Galway, and suddenly it all starts happening.
If you haven't seem Mr Sheridan talking about cheeses and M. Fantasia talking about wines, you ain't seen nuthin'. Don't miss this at Sheridan's HQ in the centre city


Kevin Sheridan on RAW MILK IRISH CHEESES
with
Enrico Fantasia on 'NATURAL' WINES

MONDAY 9TH JUNE
7PM

Tickets are €20
Book a seat with Gerry at 091 564832 or
email galway@sheridanscheesemongers.com

Whilst we have been having some time off, our Galway Girl, Sabrina Conneely, has been busy, Here are a quartet of Galway hotspots to whet your appetite for a trip to Ireland's wildest and most summery city. Take it away Sabrina...

It’s dinner time, so you go and call the kids in from the garden with a tempting “Dinnerrrr! Come and geddit!”
“So, what’s for dinner, Dad? ” they ask.
“Great grub. First, some sushi with wasabi and soy sauce. Then grated carrot and sweetcorn fritters.
Also, the world’s best cheese on toast with mature Coolea cheese, chopped tomato and rocket.
And we finish with stir-fried fresh noodles with purple-sprouting broccoli, spring onion, sliced carrot, ginger, chilli, garlic, fresh coriander and coconut milk with lime”.

Orthorexia, Tai Chi, and Wabi-Sabi

As a nation we have become pretty obsessive about food and health. We worry about it so much that, for lots of people today, the primary daily question is no longer “What’s for dinner?”, but rather “How will what I eat at dinner affect my health?’
The condition of worrying about whether we are eating the right thing even has its own title: Orthorexia.
We are orthorexics, people with an unhealthy obsession about healthy eating.

Well, you can't quite see us behind the great windows of the Cliffs of Moher visitor centre, but we were there on Saturday night at An Evening on the Edge of the World, the highlight of the first Burren Slow Food festival.

As a nation we have become pretty obsessive about food and health. We worry about it so much that, for lots of people today, the primary daily question is no longer “What’s for dinner?”, but rather “How will what I eat at dinner affect my health?’

The condition of worrying about whether we are eating the right thing even has its own title: Orthorexia.

We are orthorexics, people with an unhealthy obsession about healthy eating.

“To be an inspired wine taster, you must be capable of experiencing synesthesia. “Ça descend la gorge comme le bebé Jesu en culottes de velours,” the French say. “It goes down the throat like the baby Jesus in velvet underwear.” A great terroir wine you can visualize as possessing a center, a core; I sometimes visualize terroir wines as planetary systems, with the minerals exerting the gravitational pull of the sun. Or, I see the minerals as the backbone, the skeleton of the wine, that which gives the wine stability and persistence.

‘My 10-minute meal would be a piece of chicken or a piece of fish, and I chop up a whole lot of herbs, a little salt, olive oil, and pack this on both sides, and I just cook it in a cast iron pan 'till it's all brown. Meanwhile I boil up some new potatoes and I have a salad and I make a vinaigrette that goes over everything. That's 10 minutes. But it's not 10 minutes if I haven't thought about the salad in advance, having found some herbs and grown them in my garden”.

Urs and Helen Tobler, of Kilkenny's splendid Vendemia Wines, write...

Just to let you know that we have opened an organic wine bar in Kilkenny. We thought it would be the best way to showcase our wines and so far we have had no complaints! We opened quietly in January and the learning curve continues!
We must be the only organic and biodynamic wine-bar in Ireland!