US food company, Aramark, is to buy the Avoca group of Irish upmarket retail outlets and cafes.

Christmas is coming and the list is getting fat — with cool, yuletide gifts handpicked by Esther N McCarthy for your Christmas time present perusal.

Work up an appetite for Sunday lunch with 4FM’s Davis on 4. Derek Davis talks to Ireland’s greatest chefs, food writers and bloggers every Sunday morning on 4FM, from 10am-12pm.

IN THE introduction to the Avoca Café Cookbook Part 2, Simon Pratt expresses his fervent hope that this new book will become a dog-eared favourite in kitchens everywhere like its predecessor, the Avoca Café Cookbook.