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10 September 2007
The Witchery by the Castle, Edinburgh
For my 30th birthday, Nina brought me to Edinburgh, to stay in the Witchery’s Library Suite. It was fantastic beyond belief, and I recommend it to everyone. We’ll be going back as often as possible, I think, and not least because of the food in the restaurant. It’s often deemed the best restaurant in Edinburgh.
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17 July 2007
Barbecue Sausages
In Finland, barbecuing in the summer is very popular, but it is perhaps less of an art than in many other countries. I have no doubt that the food product that gets most outing during these sessions is the barbecue sausage. For many, they would even be the only product cooked on the barbecue. When […]
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10 July 2007
Michie Sushi
Michie Sushi make the best sushi in Dublin. I realise that’s something of a broad statement, but I’ll stand by it - I’ve tried pretty nearly every other sushi maker in the city, and Michie Sushi stands head and shoulders above the rest. They’re tucked away in Chelmsford Lane in Ranelagh, and they do both […]
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20 June 2007
Tasting Beer, Tea & Chocolate
Everyone’s tastes change over time, and mine have been no different. Ten years ago I drank cider (hard cider for the Americans in the audience), drank only “ordinary” tea, and if I was inclined toward chocolate at all, preferred a sweet milk chocolate, most like Cadbury’s or thereabouts. I was only starting to distinguish between […]
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15 June 2007
Irish Stew
I’m not sure how the Irish Stew came to be labelled with “Irish”. At home, it was just stew, and it rather confused me later on to find references to it by nationality, as though stews elsewhere were different. Stew is also a winter sort of a dish, or at least autumn, but it’s a […]
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14 June 2007
Yeast
Those who have been monitoring my various online adventures and/or who know me in real life know that yeast cookery is one of my taller hobbyhorses. In the past, this used to mostly concern its (lack of) availability in Ireland. Understand: yeast baking to me very nearly represents the pinnacle of comfort food. When I […]
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11 June 2007
The Search For Anchovy Essence
Searching for a given obscure ingredient in Ireland can be a very difficult proposition. Dublin isn’t a big city, and there are a limited number of shops, but going through all of them on foot, searching the shelves, and asking shop assistants who don’t necessarily recognise what you’re hunting for, would probably take weeks. Given […]
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6 June 2007
The Desirous Pie
Pies were not something I was much exposed to, growing up. There were apple pies, of course, or apple tarts as they were called, rhubarb tarts, and occasional forays into other fruit pies, but generally speaking, the only savoury one I knew of was steak and kidney, and I thought I didn’t like kidney. So […]
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5 June 2007
How Irish Food Has Changed
Irish food has changed, to an incredible degree, over the last twenty years. This is a topic I’ll be returning to often, because it fascinates me. I was brought up with what seems to have been an unusually large range of food, probably because my mother had a respectable collection of cookery books, and collected […]
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17 December 2006
Finnish Gingerbread Biscuits
These are one half of the essential seasonal baking duality found all over Finland in December, the other half being plum tarts. Together these two sets of baked goods occupy the same place on the Finnish tables as mince pies do in Ireland, with the difference that more people like them. In Finland you can […]