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Grandma knew best…
Passing on the wisdom Note that it is international Grandmother’s Day on April 25th, and for the second year running Slow Food Ireland will be celebrating in earnest. How? By celebrating those precious...
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Grow Your Own – Stage Two
If you have been planning a vegetable patch and cultivating plants over the last month or so, then you’ll be at stage two now. I’m really thrilled with the results considering I was trapped abroad for...
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Recipe: The first crop is the sweetest
Well the first of my crops are ready to pick. Unsurprisingly, the peas are the first to make an appearance followed by the lettuce. Peas are plucky little fellas that will keep giving and giving and...
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Recipes: Novel strawberry dishes
It has been a great summer so far for growing and the strawberries haven’t let me down. They taste unbelievably flavoursome and are the stawberriest strawberries I’ve ever tasted. This is the first...
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A world without money
Mark Boyle has lived without cash for two years (Photo: The Irish Times) Earlier this summer, I wrote about freeganism, where people salvage perfectly good food from being sent to landfill. It’s...
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Recipes: Beef up a summer salad with bread
My pea pods have been producing all summer Bread doesn’t have to mean sandwiches and breakfast toast. As these Nigel Slater recipes show, bread can make a summer salad more substantial or make a side...
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Summer recipe: Posh tomato soup
Photo: The Guardian News alert! My tomatoes have ripened. Okay it doesn’t warrant such drama but I have managed to produce a considerable amount and I am giddy at the thought of eating this free fruit....
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Mint: Don’t buy it – grow it!
I know for many, the idea of growing your own is just too damn daunting but there are certain vegetables and herbs that just won’t fail – I promise. Mint is unbelievable. It is a weed and it will grow...
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Don’t waste your money on organic fruit and veg
I don’t much care for the prices, the bad science, or the fruit and veg, but there’s lots of lovely and delicious foods in organic food shops Overheard middle-class conversation: “I really want to...
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Snobbery against cheap food: How doing the right thing is a stick to beat the...
You don’t buy all your food here? You’re a terrible person. Cheap eats. German discounters. Euro value shops. Big supermarkets. Iceland. We’ve often lambasted here for being excessively focused on the...
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