Question of Taste: Honor Heffernan on Bowie, Meryl Streep and Ella Fitzgerald

The singer also includes Brad Mehldau and Barry Keoghan in her selections

 Honor Heffernan is involved in the concert for Phil Ware at Triskel in Cork. 

Honor Heffernan is a singer from Stoneybatter in Dublin. She moved to Wexford in 2019, and for the past few years has been involved in promoting a show called The Whistling Girl, based on the writing and poetry of renowned American writer and activist, Dorothy Parker: “My partner, composer Trevor Knight, wrote the music and we have taken the show to New York, London, Belgrade and toured all over Ireland.” Heffernan is also involved in organising the benefit concert for jazz musician Phil Ware, who suffered a stroke last year. It takes place at Triskel in Cork, on Saturday, December 11. See https://triskelartscentre.ie/ 

Best recent book you've read: I have been a Palestinian supporter for many years and a member of the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and a group called Palfest (artists who run annual events to highlight the occupation of Palestine and raise awareness and support). I love cooking so when I saw a cookbook called Falestin had been published I had to buy it. Written by Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley, with a foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi, it shares some wonderful recipes from local cooks and insights into the culture and resilience of the Palestinian people. As a vegan, many of the recipes are meat and dairy free and those that are not are easily amended.