The trend towards people growing their own food has sprung from a desire to eat healthily.

THEODORA FITZGIBBON was a beautiful, elegant, erudite lady, well travelled.

THE recent cover story on Time magazine was that butter is better. So surprise, surprise, it’s official after all.

NO mistaking where I was — Bordeaux airport has grape vines planted close to arrivals with a red rose at the end of each row to encourage bees to help with pollination.

THE Dublin restaurant and café scene is really humming once again.

FOR OUR May Slow Food East Cork event we returned to Sage Restaurant in Midleton to celebrate the local food.

AFTER months of build up and careful planning by Rory O’Connell, Rebecca Cronin, Colm McCan and the Litfest team the second event came and went in a whirlwind of exciting workshops, debates, lectures, tastings, demos.

WE’VE gone crazy for seaweed in recent times; I’ve woken up to phenomenal variety of sea vegetables around our coast.

After months of exciting plotting and planning, the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest got underway at the Grain Store in Ballymaloe last night.

THE excitement is really mounting, it’s just a week to this year’s Lit Fest at Ballymaloe, May 16-18.