Digested Digest: Perfect Roast Potatoes for Christmas
"Tremendously crispy, tremendously fluffy, and tremendously golden - anything less is a missed opportunity with roast potatoes." - Cúán Greene
Digested Digest: Perfect Roast Potatoes for Christmas
"Tremendously crispy, tremendously fluffy, and tremendously golden - anything less is a missed opportunity with roast potatoes." - Cúán Greene
Breaking The Mould: Bread Man Walking Set To Fold in Rialto
"The top .1%, the super elite, gave up bread years ago, the stupid gobshites." We revisit Gerry Godley's take on the price of bread.
Digested Digested: Galette Des Rois
"As we look forward to the blissful unfolding of Spring, let’s take pause to celebrate Winter." Pastry Chef extraordinaire Cissy Difford shares all you need to know about Galette Des…
Digested Digest: Perfect Roast Potatoes for Christmas
"Tremendously crispy, tremendously fluffy, and tremendously golden - anything less is a missed opportunity with roast potatoes." - Cúán Greene
Digested Digest: Phytoplankton
"Over 50% of the world’s oxygen is produced by plankton..."
Digested Digest: Tastes Like Home – Cissy Difford
"I think we can all say we’ve experienced this similar ‘involuntary memory’, or what is now known as the ‘Proustian moment’." - Cissy Difford
Digested Digest: The Prawn Prism – Christopher Kissane
Like so many foods, prawns can be a prism for looking at past and present, a reminder that when we cook and eat we are part of something much bigger…
Digested Digest: The Menu – Cissy Difford
"There’s actually a lot of psychology at play when writing a menu." Pastry chef Cissy Difford takes us on a quick jaunt down memory lane to 4000 years ago, when…
Digested Digest: Crème de la crème
"CREME is a new food experience platform and a way for chefs to create a sustainable income online. The technology company launched in October 2022 and offers a video-on-demand cooking…
The Digested Digest – Held To Ramson
"If the humble blackberry is the gateway berry for foraging novices, wild garlic is its gallant equivalent in the shape of green foliage." Chef Cúán Greene
Digested Digest: Gerry Godley – Bread Man Walking, Rialto Dublin 8
"I constantly reflect on the price of bread; mine and everyone else’s. By everyone else I mean bakers both artisanal and industrial, chi-chi grocers in swanky neighbourhoods, discount retailers in…
Digested Digest: Knives Out – A Guide to Knife Sharpening
Irish bladesmiths are seemingly in high demand. If you have managed to get your hands on an Irish-made knife of late, you deserve to be congratulated.
Digested Digest: Sparkling Sips
"Too often, we tangle ourselves up in the conditioning that the opening of a sparkling wine needs to be justified by merit of an excuse or occasion – please, life…
Digested Digest: GO FIG(URE)
"Figs. Does a more sultry fruit exist?" - Cúán Greene
Digested Digest: Preservation Nation
"I get a bit anxious when I begin to see produce dissipating. It comes with the passing of the summer solstice; an inevitable and unavoidable annual occurrence." Chef Cúán Greene…
Digested Digest: To the Bitter End – Introducing the Taste Game
"Learning to balance bitterness is not only paying homage to our past, but a transcendental act in preserving the true essence of taste." - Cúán Greene