Vintage butterflies, teal trends, lighthouse oils and enchanted cakes, Esther N McCarthy rounds up this week’s ones to watch.

Kilkenny’s Mount Juliet swept the board at Ireland’s food Oscars, with the venue taking the three top prizes at the Good Food Ireland awards.

The Menu has been getting great pleasure this week from a baker’s cookbook, even successfully attempting a heretical substitution of buttermilk with red wine vinegar in his soda bread — and the roof didn’t fall in! — so will be taking to the high seas once more in search of sustenance.

The Menu has spent the past few days rummaging through the attic for his finest Capt Birds Eye kit as he gets dickied up for what promises to be a most splendid caper: a harbour cruise down to Cronin’s Pub, in Crosshaven, for the latest Munster Foodie Tweetup, where food-loving virtual Twitter friends meet up in the flesh for … yup, food!