With the passing of the torch to a new generation, Caomhan Keane says it’s his turn in the kitchen

It takes a special kind of cookbook to earn a mention in The Menu and The Farmette Cookbook: Recipes & Adventures from My Life on an Irish Farm (Roost Books), by Imen McDonnell, is certainly such a tome. 

Life-sized Ice Age mammals, a monstrous Easter egg scavenger hunt and a new vintage carousel are just some of the attractions at Tayto Park, which opens on March 18 for its sixth season. 

You might think you’re giving a nod to tradition with a fried breakfast or a few pints of stout this Thursday — but the diet of St Patrick himself was a little healthier. And the great man’s fifth-century menu is right back in vogue.

Turtle soup and champagne were among the delicacies enjoyed by well-heeled Cork City dwellers during the final years of the Great Famine, according to the letters of UCC’s first professor of maths, George Boole.

The Dingle Food Festival is upon us again (October 2-4). 

UCC lecturer Mary Morrissy says a proper writing course may have gotten her to that IMPAC nomination a bit sooner, writes Colette Sheridan

It’s time for a return to the Marble City where Bia Beag are reprising their Meet the Bakers event (January 24). 

AFTER months of build up and careful planning by Rory O’Connell, Rebecca Cronin, Colm McCan and the Litfest team the second event came and went in a whirlwind of exciting workshops, debates, lectures, tastings, demos.

FOOD writing did not begin in the 1990s, with the rise of the celebrity chef and their (often ghostwritten) glossy tomes of recipes and pretty pictures. Mesopotamian clay tablets dating to 1750BC had recipes inscribed in a complex writing form.

Great food writers must master more than one discipline, because food’s in every aspect of our lives

Despite its fatal role in the Famine, our love for the ‘humble spud’ continues, says Louise Roseingrave

On hearing of a spud-related attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records, The Menu immediately hitched up the wagon and pointed it westwards once more for The Menu truly venerates this most tremendous of all tubers.

YOUR feature article on the Longueville Shoot in east Cork (9th December) filled me with nothing but disgust.

Regina Sexton joins the Longueville Shoot to experience a day’s hunting

With growing interest in historic homes, Regina Sexton says Fota House has one of the best preserved kitchens in the country

THE annual income of a top west Cork secondary school will plummet by €39,000 this year as a result of grant cutbacks, while subject choice and some teaching jobs will be affected, the headmistress has warned.

FROM whale-watching to historical re-enactments and from nighttime bat walks to lectures in stately homes, an impressive 1,000 events will take place across the country for Heritage Week, which will see a large number of historic buildings throw open their doors to the public, many for the first time.

THE tempting aroma of the best of locally produced food will fill the air in Dungarvan for three days in April when gourmet and culinary whizzes from across the country gather in the coastal town.

I REFER to Regina Sexton’s ‘Good Food’ article headlined ‘Berry bad year’ (Irish Examiner Weekend, September 3).

TWO houses in the mid-range, trading up level, are on offer in the Cork suburb of Wilton at exactly the same asking price.