Looking for sensible, unbiased, well-researched advice about eating is a tricky business. Food and nutrition are two of the most fad-ridden areas imaginable, and snake oil salesmen are everywhere.  Quacks like Patrick Holford and Gillian McKeith are depressingly ubiquitous, but there are also writers out there who are operating from a more qualified and less [...]

Where: Upstairs in the Grand Social, 35 Liffey St, Dublin 1 When: 12pm till 3pm (or until treats run out!) Come along to the Grand Social on Saturday for the Cake Sale to support Barnardos, and have some fun at the Hapenny Flea. The Hapenny Flea Market runs from 11 till 5 and you can [...]

Barnardos are running a huge fundraising campaign this week – the RTÉ 2fm Dress Up for Barnardos -  to raise badly needed money for their valuable work.  We’ve thought up a way that we (and you!) can help.  We’re organising a charity cake sale this weekend in Dublin city centre, and are calling on food [...]

Well I’ve been flattened by a pancake surplus this year, so instead of writing about them I’m referring you to this excellent article from The Guardian’s Word of Mouth blog. It’s full of old and new recipes, plus advice on making the perfect pancake. Or, for more recipes and ideas check out the umpteeen pancake [...]

The Guardian has some solid-gold chef’s tips for home cooks today, such a method to keep cut avocadoes from browning, and a way to quickly soften cold butter without melting it completely. I picked up a handy tip recently – coriander is my favourite herb, and I had been in the habit of stripping the [...]

A supporter of the Dublin Simon Community got in touch to tell us about this great event: From 8pm-10pm on Thursday 13th January, St. Andrew’s Resource Centre, 114 Pearse St., Dublin will host a fun and very scrumptious Vegan Cook-Off! This contest will be an opportunity for you to support the Dublin Simon Community while [...]

Tired? Poor? Hungry? Bereft of ideas? Baked potatoes are one of the cheapest and easiest dinners. Top them with baked beans, cheese and coleslaw, some cream cheese, semi sundried tomatoes with ricotta and pancetta, or throw in a load of sweetcorn, ham, cheese, onion, and tomato. Or just eat them with some salt and butter, [...]

Fellow food bloggers may be interested in Irishfoodbloggers.com – a handy new resource for Irish food bloggers which was set up by Kristin of Dinner Du Jour and Caroline of Bibliocook. It allows bloggers to come together and share events, and contains useful resources for those interested in writing about food.

In today’s Pricewatch, Conor Pope talks to Elizabeth Carty, author of Shrewd Food: A New Way of Shopping, Cooking and Eating, a new cookbook about feeding a family of four for less than €100 a week. Pope writes: The idea of a cheap eats cook book is hardly new and since the start of the [...]

The Guardian – home of the wonderful Word of Mouth blog, publisher of the Observer Food Monthly magazine, and my favourite newspaper for food journalism – has just launched a handy online search guide for its recipes. It’s disarmingly simple: enter the ingredients you wish to use, with the option to exclude those you don’t [...]