We know that chefs get their gloves on, but we would never have thought they’d be getting their groove on, as well. Surprise, surprise, then, when it was revealed in the first quarter of 2021 that no less a public figure and one of Ireland’s best-known chefs, Neven Maguire, maneuvered if not manipulated the decks […]

Attention to detail, diligent, dedicated and above all self-possessed. All of these attributes and more can be combined to create something quite special, and if we know anything about the work of pastry chef Aoife Noonan then it is that her creations (and, yes, we reckon that is the accurate description) are uncommonly distinctive.  She

“Topsy-turvey,” is how Chad Byrne describes the past 15 months. “I made the most of it and am thankful for what I have achieved during that time.” In fairness to the Executive Chef of Killarney-based The Brehon Hotel (and, lest we forget in these times of turmoil, the brain behind the Hungry Donkey, one of Ireland’s

There is little doubt about it – Michelle Lawlor has done it in the past, she is doing it in the present, and she will do it in the future. We are talking about business and the way to go about it, which if you haven’t guessed by now is her way and her way

“Pasta! I cook a lot of pasta mainly because I have a three-and-a-half-year-old who loves her pasta. My mum frowns about this and asks me why am I not making her rice. But she likes pasta, so what can you do? I grew up with a lot of rice, and many dishes that had rice,

Holly Carpenter knows all about pressure. She was, after all, a 19-year-old when, as a design student in NCAD, she experienced a marked change in her life: she entered the Miss Ireland contest and won it. Cue about five years of pap shots, photoshoots, red carpets and green rooms. Not only that but Holly was