Archive for October, 2003

Brilliant Red Wine

October 28, 2003 No Comments

I make no apologies for singing the praises of this wine, one of the top five reds I’ve driunk this year so far. Mas Igneus 2000 comes from Priorat in NE Spain – from a local cooperative lent a hand by stylish producers Albet y Noya. The wine is a joyous, singing, complex red – ...

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Young Irish Chef Wins Ramsay Scholarship Heat

October 7, 2003 No Comments

One of the semi-final heats of the Gordon Ramsay Scholarship was held at IT Tallaght today. Against competition from fledgling chefs from England and Scotland Trevor Cunningham a young chef from the Nuremore Hotel, Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan was awarded the ticket to the finals – with his eyes on the first prize – a “stage” ...

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Alexis

American business psychologist Warren G. Bennis, described by Forbes magazine as ‘the king of leadership gurus’  is on record...

‘YOU DON’T NEED A POSH CANON” – blogpix for newbies

I’ve been a photo hobbyist since I got given  my first serious camera as a fourteenth birthday present. A...

YOU’LL NEVER BLOG ALONE – the day I discovered I’m a blogger and other stories

There are now over 400 food bloggers in Ireland. Though www.forkncork.com my food and drink website, Ireland’s first, has...

Natural Wine: Dog’s bollocks or the King’s new clothes?

Natural Wine Tasting at Fallon & Byrne, Dublin  by Le Caveau My first encounter with what has come to...

BLOG – variations on a sweet-and-sour theme

I cooked my first sweet and sour dish in 1984. Pork, of course. The recipe came from Ken Hom’s...

BOOK REVIEW Dunne & Crescenzi – The Menu

“We really cook very simply. Remember that the methods and ingredients have been used for generations and in the...

BLOG – 2 good blends tested but why is most coffee in Ireland shit?

  I’ve just been road testing a brace of quality coffees from a small and relatively new Irish supplier,...

That’s Amarone – Masi & Serego Alighieri tasting

Valpolicella is a viticultural zone of the Italian province of Verona, east of Lake Garda, ranking as the second...

BLOG – of store cupboards and other matters

Yesterday I set out to clean out my store cupboard – well, not exactly ‘clean out’ but at least...

RESTAURANT REVIEW – Lee Kee

My first encounter with Chinese food was in Manchester way back in the last century.  I was doing evening...