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Postponed Join us for this exciting culinary adventure, as we take you on a tour of Spain’s most celebrated regional cuisines. This series which will run through 2020, is in collaboration with ‘Food & Wines of Spain’. Our aim is to focus in on the food and wines of the four regions that we think best celebrate Spanish cooking today: The Basque Country, Andalusia, Galicia […]
Almodóvar must have grown up in a kitchen. It’s clear from his liberal use of them and food in his movies. I recently had the chance to sit down and carefully watch for a second time “Julieta”, his movie based on a series of short-stories by Alice Munro. I am a big fan of reds, […]
I can’t remember how it exactly happened, but one Saturday I found myself with Steve collecting wild plants with Geraldine Kavanagh from Wicklow Wild Foods for his birthday. An Irish food ambassador if I ever met one, Geraldine is a professional forager working for Glendalough Distillery who runs foraging tours on the weekends. She is the grown-up […]
I am very excited about my upcoming classes for Instituto Cervantes here in Dublin. The Spanish Commercial Office will be collaborating with us so there will be unusual products and great regional wines. You can find the links below. The first one will focus on Spanish charcuterie. I will be using tv ads, economic trends […]
For anyone with a background in cooking, extra virgin olive oil is a fascinating topic. I have always lived my life close to the olive tree, since it was my Grandmother’s only income apart from her widower’s pension (she would sell her olives to an olive press), my mother’s sister and her husband ran an […]