An impressive glass add-on doesn’t look out of place in this Christmassy house.

Caroline James’s first visit to Kinsale’s Gourmet Festival in 2011 inspired her new novel, So You Think You’re A Celebrity… Chef?

ISN’T it funny how often, a seemingly innocuous trigger like the distinctive scent of drying paint will, without warning, jerk you back to a certain time and place.

TOURISTS looked bewildered and day trippers stopped to stare as Alice in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse trooped through Kinsale yesterday, followed by up to 200 revellers eating and drinking their way though the town.

THERE probably isn’t enough ink to do justice to an afternoon with Stuart Barnes. The former England international and Lion rolls out the stories and anecdotes — the late Keith Floyd figures in a few — in a steady stream.

Bilberries can also be used, in which case omit the cinnamon.

Many of us owe him a debt. Thank you Keith for your contribution to the food world and for all your inspiration.

Many of us owe him a debt. Thank you Keith for your contribution to the food world and for all your inspiration.

Popular TV chef Keith Floyd was cremated yesterday in a coffin made of banana leaves in a service attended by around 300 people including his son, Patrick, 40, daughter Poppy, 25, and two of his four ex-wives.

FAMILY and friends celebrated the eventful life of TV chef Keith Floyd at a humanist funeral yesterday, but his celebrity peers were notable by their absence.

Keith Floyd enjoyed a last slap-up meal hours before he died.

TRIBUTES flowed from Ireland’s gourmet capital yesterday following the death of Keith Floyd — one of its most popular adopted sons.

KEITH FLOYD, 65, with his jaunty manner and gritty alcohol-fuelled voice, was one of the most popular and successful of an entire tribe of TV chefs.

THE cooking world lined up to pay tribute to TV chef Keith Floyd after his death from a heart attack.

KEITH FLOYD’S showmanship and love of food and his understanding that it, allied to a good wine, could do more than most anything else to foster human relationships made him the first truly successful TV chef of our time.

Tributes have been paid to the larger than life celebrity chef Keith Floyd, who added “sparkle to Kinsale”, following his death last night.

TV chef Keith Floyd has died, his ghost writer James Steen said today.

Television chef Keith Floyd is seriously ill in hospital after collapsing at a pub, his friend said today.

Flamboyant TV chef Keith Floyd has postponed UK tour dates after returning unwell from China and the Far East, it emerged today.

Bjork has been voted the world’s most eccentric star.

TV CHEF Keith Floyd was banned from driving for 32 months yesterday.

BBC2 is celebrating its 40th birthday – and the BBC Radio Times has compiled a list of 40 landmark shows which have kept viewers tuning in.