Rocking Grass Archives: August 2006
·
27 August 2006
Review: O’Connell’s (in Ballsbridge)
It is an ill thing to attend a feast of any sort when one is suffering from the pangs of cold. Were I a professional restaurant reviewer, it would be an even more unfortunate thing for the eaterie in which I would find my ailing self. A cold wreaks havoc to the senses: not only […]
continue reading... » 0 Comments
9 August 2006
Karelian hotpot
My grandmother is from Karelia, one of the areas of Finland that were lost to the then Soviet Union after the Second World War. That area had, and still has, among the descendants of the refugees and in those parts of the “tribal” area that remained within Finnish rule, an extremely rich culinary culture. It […]