Top chef Catherine Fulvio knows exactly what she’s looking for in an oven. She offers some tips and advice to Kya deLongchamps.

The season kicks off with Niall Horan joining the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on RTÉ One at 6.55pm on Saturday May 12.

How time passes when you’re having fun. And time has certainly passed for the 11-year-old West Waterford Festival of Food 2018 (April 20-22), an event at which The Menu has, in years gone by, put away more fun than a clown school on nitrous oxide.

One of Cork’s most beautiful ‘Big Houses’ is to appear in the popular RTÉ TV series Lords and Ladles.

I recently used an old copy of Georgio Locatelli’s Made in Sicily and cooked the most delicious pasta dish and some pork meatballs.

Here's the best of tonight's telly.

Here's what to watch on tonight's TV.

Après Match of the Day has the comedy crew delving into Ireland’s glorious soccer history on Monday.

Despite disappointing ticket sales, the organisers of a major music festival in Kerry next weekend have pledged all acts on the programme will be performing.

Hands up: Jack Black stars alongside Tim Robbins in new comedy series The Brink on Sky Atlantic on Monday.

Lords & Ladies takes the viewer on a historical journey to celebrate our past through the wonders of food and the glories of cooking.

Kevin McCloud spends time with a family who have escaped the rat race and are now living in Tonga.

The Connemara Mussel Festival (May 1-3) picked up one hell of an accolade last year.

IT wasn’t a particularly unusual order, or so celebrity chef Catherine Fulvio thought. She stopped off at her local shop one January evening to buy some fresh veg for a mid-week family stirfry, but was assailed by a tinfoil egg mountain.

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Kitty Scully takes a closer look at Michael Kelly’s ‘Grow Cook Eat’ which is packed with everything you need to know about how to grow, harvest and cook your own vegetables as well as celebrity chef recipes too.

THERE’S never any shortage of cookbooks at this time of year. Publishers know they make great gifts, as do those who give gifts they want to last.

Check out our spoiler-free guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Check out our spoiler-free guide to the best of tonight's TV.

SATURDAY

The humble spud — where would we be without it? If you’ve ever pondered that question, and you probably haven’t, then today is the day to muse on it further, as October 3 marks the return of National Potato Day.

Nearly one in five teachers says they have seen an increase in the number of children coming to school hungry.

The second Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest of Food & Wine ended last night where it all began just 48 hours previously, in the ‘Big Shed’ at Ballymaloe House in East Cork.

Believing attendance at an Irish food festival is a state of grace any God-fearing Gael should aspire to on a near daily basis.

Bracelet thanks: Made in America from recycled materials Alex and Ani bracelets are designed to as keepsakes for the special people in your life.

Buy locally sourced or Irish produce this Christmas

FOR ME it was a wonderful surprise that my latest book 30 Years at Ballymaloe won the Avonmore Cookbook of the Year award at the Bord Gáis Irish Book Awards — and it really was a surprise.

MOST of us adore the gift of an appropriate book, and with so many new titles in the Home & Garden section, there really is something to excite every reader.

The shortlists for “the biggest celebration of Irish writing” was announced yesterday.

Halloween is around the corner and children will be bombarded with sugary treats.

DARINA ALLEN is enjoying herself. For once, the beating heart of Ballymaloe Cookery School is taking a little time off to smell the roses.