It won’t have escaped anyone’s notice that my postings on forkncork have been rather sparse of late. Yes, I have been busy setting up the food section for The Sunday Times ‘Sunday’ magazine. And writing my two articles a week. Judging wine comps and attending press junkets. But the main reason for abandoning, albeit temporarily, my
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You don’t need a big posh Canon – camera advice for bloggers
I’ve been a photo hobbyist since I got given my first serious camera as a fourteenth birthday present. A Zeiss Ikon ‘folder’ that took a mere eight shots to a roll of film, far cry from today’s digital wonders. It had an f4.5 lens, very slow by today’s standards. Being something of a tech head
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 past there were hardly any cooking facilities and definitely no microwave ovens, so things had to be easy. The key to the whole thing is that in the ‘old days’ food had much better flavour and
BOOK REVIEW ‘Turkey – Recipes and Tales from the Road’ by Leanne Kitchen
I’ve been anxious to get my hands on this book for some time now and the minute I slipped ‘Turkey – Recipes and Tales from the Road’ out of its padded envelope I knew it had been worth the wait. Fair dues to Murdoch Books; considering the author, Leanne Kitchen (a trained chef turned food
BOOK REVIEW – Martin’s Fishy Fishy Cookbook by Martin Shanahan
Ah, fish, the great Irish paradox. We live on an island surrounded by fish but, by and large, we shun them unless they come battered or breadcrumbed. This is because (or so the theory goes) we were forced to eat it on Fridays we don’t really like fish and don’t eat it now we don’t
ON TEST: Two new kitchen gadgets.
Joseph Joseph market a range of kitchen gadgets – from manual lemon squeezers to spud peelers, from the bright and colourful to the downright bizarre-looking. This week forncork availed of the opportunity to test two of them. The first, and the simpler of the two, falls into the ‘Quite A Good Idea’ category. A round
BOOK REVIEW: Loose Birds & Game by Andrew Pern
Game seems , thank God, to be making a comeback. My local Dublin butcher has, in season, venison, pheasant, partridge and mallard. Rabbit, which disappeared from the high street for years is now back in the shops with a vengeance. Yet cookery books dealing exclusively with game are few and far between. Angela Humphreys’
ON TEST Tefal Actifry
How good is the Actifry? Ernie Whalley tests the kitchen gizmo that claims to cook a kilo of chips using less than a tablespoon of oil. The Tefal Actifry, with well over a million in use around the world, has been a huge success for the French kitchen electronics giant. The gadget had its birthpangs
ON TEST – Derrycamma Farm Rapeseed Oil
Rapeseed oil comes from oilseed rape, a root vegetable and cousin of mustard cabbage. The name is derived from the Old English term for turnip –‘rapum’. It comes, as you’d imagine, from those bilious yellow fields that, to my mind at least, disfigure so much of the countryside in Britain and Ireland. However, aesthetics aren’t
BOOK REVIEW – Inside the Italian Kitchen
I really like this book, a collaboration between chef Marco Roccasalvo of the restaurant Capo de’Fiori in Bray and Anne Kennedy of greatfood.ie. who, in her introduction, says “If you think some of his recipes are too simple to be excellent, then his (Marco’s) work is done.” There’s a long and informative section on the
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