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. 

1. Picture That

Joe McNamee talks to the dynamic team behind the West Waterford Festival of Food, which runs from April 9-12 in Dungarvan, and about how it has evolved into one of the country’s finest celebrations of culinary tradition and food heritage.