I love the creative side of cooking. It is what keeps me doing it.

 

Forest Avenue,

THE Dublin restaurant and café scene is really humming once again.

Ananda, Dundrum Town Centre, Dublin; tel: 01-2960099; anandarestaurant.ie

FOR most of the year The Burren is more moonscape than landscape.

Food for thought at West Waterford festival

Up to 800,000 people are expected to throng to the west this weekend and next week as the Volvo Ocean Race finishes in Galway.

AT first glance, The Greenhouse seems a pretty straight play for a Michelin Star.

MUCH has changed on the Irish food scene since I started the Ballymaloe Cookery School in September 1983.

From time to time we invite a chef whose food we admire and enjoy, to come to the school to teach a guest chef course.

Chefs are going to greater lengths to source locally produced food and are increasingly opting for organic, AA Ireland found during its search for culinary excellence.

BY NOW, we’re used to restaurants talking up local and seasonal ingredients.

YOU must all go to Clare — more specifically to the Burren area of north Clare.

IRELAND’S future is unquestionably in food production. At long last we are recognising the fact that Ireland is in an enviable position in terms of natural resources – we are an island nation on the edge of Europe with 400 million affluent consumers on our doorstep.