Why don't councillors talk as much about homelessness at meetings anymore?
For years, homelessness was a standing item on the agenda at most housing committee meetings. But, recently it hasn’t featured as often.
My Goodness has evolved to sell vegan and gluten-free products, but always with an agenda – to test solutions to problems in the food business.
“People have a great affinity for confectionary,” says Cormac Moore. “Their eyes light up when they think of long-forgotten sweets they had as children.”
We don’t know what was eaten at Christmas in medieval Ireland. We do know, though, there were great feasts, writes a culinary archaeologist.
The Food Smart Dublin project aims not only to reintroduce forgotten seafood recipes to the Dublin diet, but also to show why its smart to use some seafoods more than others.
In medieval Ireland, Anglo-Normans hunted fallow deer in parks, while Gaelic Irish elites preferred big, wild red deer. This recipe from a culinary archaeologist would have worked for either.
The Green Kitchen is a social enterprise, meant to provide a pathway to employment for those who might otherwise be left behind. It also serves tasty wild-mushroom risotto.
The menu and decor draw inspiration from all over. That’s partly because staff who pass through leave a bit of their knowledge behind.
Medieval Ireland had some quirky breads: from paindemain to bannock. Here’s a recipe for a rich and buttery raston, from a culinary archaeologist.
With sea buckthorn berries harvested from Bull Island, Shane Kelly’s Dot Brew is brewing a saison, now in white wine barrels in a warehouse in Dolphin’s Barn.
To start with “take veel other[wise] motoun and smyte it to gobettes”, an early version of this lamb recipe says.
Susan Elizabeth Maguire delights in mixing bold flavours, from deep-fried plantains with pineapple chutney, to lime and thyme in Irish soda bread.
A chef makes noodles the old fashioned way – with his bare hands.