Thursday 20 August, 2009
by peter
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The good folk at RTE’s The Afternoon Show have been in touch to let us know about a new segment on the programme: Beat the Chef. They’re looking for viewers who fancy going up against the show’s chefs with their … Continue reading
Friday 22 May, 2009
by peter
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Thanks very much to TV3’s Ireland: AM crew for having me on this morning. You can watch a clip of the show here. It was lovely to meet Alice Cope Hogan, who recently opened The Mad Hatter Cafe in Castledermot, … Continue reading
Monday 6 April, 2009
by peter
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For today’s Pricewatch in the Irish Times, Conor Pope sampled five Easter eggs. Lily O’Brien and Ferrero Rocher topped his list. Last year I enthusiastically bought myself two Easter eggs, both from Cadbury, and had a long-overdue epiphany: most Easter … Continue reading
Friday 23 January, 2009
by jean
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Channel 4’s Dispatches programme investigated supermarket ‘bargain’ foods last night, with the food critic Jay Rayner. I missed small bits of the show due to some toddler melodrama, but saw most of it. Like most Channel 4 documentaries it was … Continue reading
Thursday 22 January, 2009
by jean
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The food critic Jay Rayner presents a Dispatches special tonight on budget food lines and examines the ingredients that go into them. Rayner wrote on this topic in last weekend’s Observer, and mentioned some pretty unpleasant findings: beef pies that … Continue reading