Dublin-based food and wine writer Ernie Whalley set up www.forkncork.com as early as 2002 to collate his archive of published content; Donal Skehan started blogging in 2007, and was one of the first Irish food bloggers to publish a cookbook just two years later.

Jola Wojtowitz outside her (now closed) restaurant in Lower O’Connell Street in Kinsale.