The Menu: This lovely book will foster a more mindful and healthy relationship with food

Plus husband and wife Jordan Bailey and Majken Bech-Bailey, most recently of Aimsir, will stage a five-course feast menu for a special two-night residency later this month

Mindfulness and food

Cathy Fitzgibbon, aka the Culinary Celt, is a keen promoter of the best of local and seasonal Irish produce and foodstuffs. Today The Menu wishes to give a warm nod to a production of her own, a lovely book/workbook, Eat With the Seasons, which is designed to foster a more mindful and healthy relationship with food and eating, by tuning in to the natural rhythms of the growing seasons. Anyone struggling with emotional eating patterns will find it to be a canny little tool when it comes to reappraising and understanding better their relationships with food and eating. It is full of practical and meaningful ways to self-reflect and recognise personal eating patterns, allowing the reader to develop a more positive relationship with food.