Kit and Cyril’s culinary treasures

Q&A - Kit Ó Céirín

For many thousands of years, the ancestors improved and refined their foraging techniques, spending many hours searching out the most valuable and nutritious plants and those herbs that would be vital for medicines.

It must have taken many years of careful observation — along with trial and sometimes fatal error — before there was any degree of certainty to this inexact art. And along the way there were those who developed a sort of sixth sense about what plant was good to eat and which herb would cure a toothache.