Rocking Grass Archives: Irish Food
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6 October 2007
Fishing in the Irish Sea
Last Saturday, I went fishing with my brothers and a few other people on a chartered boat trip out a little way into the Irish Sea (or the Atlantic, at that point, really) from Kilmore Quay in Wexford. Bear in mind, now, that I hadn’t been near fishing tackle since I was about sixteen, and […]
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25 September 2007
As It Is: Market Burgers
Michael Charlton has worked with Rick Stein and Terrence Conran, in restaurants in London and Cornwall, and in Chapter One here in Dublin. Now he’s striking out on his own with a market stall business selling organic beef burgers under the name As It Is.
I went to talk to Michael at his stall in the […]
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24 September 2007
Autumn Food
For all that I cook happily year-round, there’s something about autumn that makes me want to cook more. I think it’s probably to do with being brought up in the country, for one thing, when you could actually see harvests coming in. Sure, in Wexford it was grain, sugar-beet, and sometimes potatoes, and not a […]
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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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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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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 […]