The Menu is very honoured to be joining the renowned food writer Lilly Higgins, Bakestone chef/proprietor Ali Honour and Iyer’s Café chef/proprietor, Gautham Iyer, to deliver an exclusive multi-course cooking demo, one course apiece (June 27), in the Brennan’s Cookery School, in Cork, with a healthy sample of each dish for all in the audience.

IT’S SUMMER, and while gardens, parks and meadows throughout the land have burst into blossom, nowhere will boast brighter colours or dreamier scents than the RDS, which transforms into a floral paradise next week.

While The Menu remains forever enraptured by our glorious West coast, he knows full well that man does not live on scenery alone...

Six celeb chefs — 12 questions. Lily Higgins, Trish Deseine (recent winner at the prestigious Gourmand Awards), Yotam Ottolenghi and others reveal their dream dinner party guests, memorable meals — and their favourite recipes to create the perfect summer menu to Joe McNamee.

Sugar & Spice is a wonderful cooking competition& open to all ages and all levels of experience in aid of the very excellent Cork-based Hope Foundation charity, which works with deprived street children in Kolkata, India.

The Menu, having saddled up the doughty Neidin and ensured his Party Hat was cocked at a particularly rakish angle, lit out for the Big Smoke earlier this week to the Irish Food Writer’s Guild Annual Food Awards, one of the highlights of the Irish culinary year when the cream of Irish food writers assemble to honour the world-class Irish food world.

Buy locally sourced or Irish produce this Christmas

WHEN I first met my partner Colm it was over a conversation about food.

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

Packed up

Cork is set to host one of the world’s top 10 social media events this weekend for the second year in a row.

Baking, blogging and foodie facebooking

MY DAILY routine is that I’m running 10 minutes late for everything!

IT’S SUNDAY.