Weekend Food

Every now and then there’s a moment, a milestone which can indicate the end of an era. For me a recent experience in a West Cork village was just that.

It was just a small thing but I was alwaysreassured by the presence of buttermilk in local shops, an indication that the tradition of baking a loaf of soda bread was alive and well in the parish.

It’s a long time since one could buy an entire sack of flour in a village shop but it’s still possible in the one and only shop on Inis Meáin, which hopefully indicates a rich baking tradition among the islanders.