Meal Ticket: Probus Wines, Dublin 2With their homemade relishes, soups, pestos and red onion marmalades, they’re making the most of their small spaceWed Oct 05 2016 - 19:00
Supermarket psychology: how shops convince you to spendSupermarkets aren’t just rooms full of stuff for us to buy, they’ve been carefully designed to make you buy moreWed Oct 05 2016 - 17:00
Meal Ticket: Fragments, Dublin 6WRecently relaunched Terenure deli with Prosecco tap is no-brainer for Italian food loversWed Sept 28 2016 - 19:00
Spilling the beans: a history of food idioms‘Theories abound on the connection between being bananas and being nuts’Wed Sept 28 2016 - 17:00
Meal ticket: The Ramen Bar, Dublin 2A head cold meets its match in a bowl of noodle soup that has been carefully simmering for hoursFri Sept 23 2016 - 11:00
Early autumn food ritualsIt’s the season of Thanksgiving, crab fairs, mushroom hunting and the Harvest Moon festivalThu Sept 22 2016 - 14:00
The art of cookery: how the history of food was preserved through paintingsImages of bread, wine, dairy and poultry captured on Ancient Egyptians wall paintings has helped historians learn about the diet and way of life of that ancient civilizationThu Sept 15 2016 - 17:00
Meal Ticket: Bear Market Coffee, Blackrock, DublinBear Market Coffee is clearly a coffee-focused spot, and it’s here where they excelThu Sept 15 2016 - 14:00
Meal Ticket: First Draft Coffee, Filmbase, Dublin 2It’s been a seamless shift for First Draft Coffee to take over from Roasted Brown in this Temple Bar spaceThu Sept 08 2016 - 17:00
How to clean the house with the food in your kitchenFrom baking soda to banana peels, the kitchen has everything you need to make a range of natural cleaning productsThu Sept 08 2016 - 14:00
Meal Ticket: Two Boys Brew, Dublin 7Two Boys Brew is one of the most promising new cafes to open in the city in the last yearThu Sept 01 2016 - 19:00
Experience model village life at A Fair LandA Fair Land, was a collaboration between IMMA and Grizedale Arts, an arts organisation based in the Lake District in the UKThu Sept 01 2016 - 17:00
Meal Ticket: Duo Cafe, Westport, MayoThe consistency of Duo’s food could be improved a little but they’ve nailed the cakesThu Aug 25 2016 - 17:00
Can olives stop sea sickness? Strange cures from your kitchenWhen Coca Cola was first put on sale in 1886, marketed as a cure for morphine addiction, indigestion, nerve disorder, headaches and impotenceThu Aug 25 2016 - 14:00
On a Rolle with RalphRalph Rolle returns to Ireland with his culinary cap on this summer, as part of the Electric Picnic’s Theatre of Food line-upSat Aug 20 2016 - 01:00
Can music affect your appetite?Studies show that different kinds of music can change how much we spend on food and drinkWed Aug 17 2016 - 17:00
Meal Ticket: The Bula Bus at Billy Byrne’s Bar, KilkennyThe Bula Bus is a grafitti-splattered double decker parked outside the back of Billy Byrne’s beer gardenWed Aug 17 2016 - 14:00
Not every takeaway has to be a curryServing Dublin 2, 6 and 8, Piply is the healthy takeaway we’ve all been waiting forWed Aug 10 2016 - 16:00
Meal Ticket: Full Circle Roasters, Dublin 1Brian Birdy’s specialty cofffee bar in Jacobs Inn Hostel is the ideal place for a great coffeeThu Aug 04 2016 - 17:00
Forbidden foods: why they taste so deliciousFrom the apple in the Garden of Eden to sickly sweets, we love stuff we shouldn’t eatWed Aug 03 2016 - 14:00
The history of food as beautyFrom baths of milk to honey waxing, beauty and food share a long and illustrious historySun Jul 31 2016 - 09:31
Butter: Has it always been this delicious?As you get stuck into your toast this morning, remember that butter has been around for thousands of yearsSun Jul 24 2016 - 07:00
Meal Ticket: Badger & Dodo, Francis St, DublinThe first Dublin location for the Cork roaster at the forefront of specialty coffee over the past decadeFri Jul 22 2016 - 14:43
The Taylor Swift / Calvin Harris saga hasn’t gone away you knowJust because Kim and Kanye are sucking all the publicity back in their direction doesn’t mean we should forget about the Calvin feudMon Jul 18 2016 - 12:50
The sweet history of birthday cakesThe ancient Romans celebrated with round cakes made of fruit and flour, sweetened with honeySun Jul 17 2016 - 12:00
Meal Ticket: Becca’s Bakery, Westport, MayoThrough the front window, you can see an old-fashioned weighing scales, bunting and the promise of bunsThu Jul 14 2016 - 17:00
The history of the world through recipe booksFrom stone tablets to digital ones, recipes have always been an essential part of cookingSat Jul 09 2016 - 13:00
Meal Ticket: The Lodge Restaurant, Letterfrack, GalwayHere you’ll find something that is still frustratingly absent from so many restaurants along the tourist trail – a proud representation of local ingredients, cooked wellThu Jul 07 2016 - 17:00
Let’s do brunch: the history of the portmanteau mealSunday brunch is a meal that many a Saturday-night reveler drags themselves to bleary-eyed in search of the cureSun Jul 03 2016 - 10:00
Meal Ticket: Tang! by Yogism, Dublin 2Yogurt certainly runs through the menu, but it’s not restrictive by any meansThu Jun 30 2016 - 19:00
Food on Board: Environmentally friendly food coming to a festival near youThe food area highlights food waste at festivals, while simultaneously offering food that festival-goers craveFri Jun 24 2016 - 11:00
Get a taste of the World Barista Championships with these top Irish cafésThe rabbit hole of techniques, flavours and origins that is specialty coffee continues to capture more and more imaginations nationwideThu Jun 23 2016 - 06:00
Select: a matter of tasteMany scientists believe that food preference is evolutionary and has developed to protect usFri Jun 17 2016 - 11:00
Meal Ticket: Gaillotet Gray, Dublin 8Taking home a freshly baked loaf of rustic French bread and a well-made coffee is a pretty great start to any dayFri Jun 17 2016 - 07:00
Barbecue: What is it good for?Get over your barbecue fatigue and rediscover old ideas through one of the world’s most fundamental cooking techniquesFri Jun 10 2016 - 11:00
Meal Ticket: Two Pups Coffee, Dublin 8A little coffee bar serving specialty beans surrounded by vintage clothes, with a few chairs and tables that catch the sun coming in through the shop’s windowsWed Jun 08 2016 - 14:00
Select: The ‘pay what you want’ approachA number of café’s have trialed 'honesty boxes' but not all have sustained themThu Jun 02 2016 - 14:15
Meal Ticket: Café Aran, Inis Oírr, GalwayFesh local fare with an impressively extensive baked goods sectionThu Jun 02 2016 - 13:00
Need inspiration? These foodie magazines are a feast for the eyesSome people spend their money on handbags and shoes; others spend their dough on food magazinesFri May 27 2016 - 11:00
Like a rolling cheese: chow down on crazy food competitionsA madcap cheese-chasing competition is daftly entertaining, but senseless gluttony is alive and well in other stuff-your-face traditionsFri May 20 2016 - 11:45
Meal Ticket: Urbanity, Smithfield, Dublin 7When it comes to beans, these folks mean businessThu May 19 2016 - 16:00
Select: The Cadbury Caramel Bunny and the power of food mascotsDon’t you think it’s a little odd that many of us fancied an animated rabbit when we were younger?Fri May 13 2016 - 12:00
Meal Ticket: Fia Café, Dublin 6Until Fia came along just last month, this spot had been empty for some timeThu May 12 2016 - 12:00
Select: The history of iconic breakfast charactersHow Tony the Tiger and the Honey Monster sweet-talked us into breakfastFri May 06 2016 - 11:00
Meal Ticket: Meet Me in the Morning, Dublin 8Cafe’s unpretentious identity already feels fully formed within a month of openingThu May 05 2016 - 13:30
Cooking with Coolio: the weird world of celebrity cookbooksI’m sure during a particularly fallow patch of your average celebrity’s career, there’s an agent waiting in the wings with a cookbook proposalFri Apr 29 2016 - 11:00
Food packaging: visual feasts from around the worldAoife McElwain sets her sights beyond our island to point out some of the tastiest packaging she’s come across on her travelsFri Apr 22 2016 - 11:00
Meal Ticket: Knox, SligoKnox is not just a pretty face, there is real substance in their offeringFri Apr 22 2016 - 10:42
Meal Ticket: Sweet Beat Café, SligoSweet Beat Café has just celebrated its first birthday and it’s safe to say that its plant-based philosophy is here to stayFri Apr 15 2016 - 11:00
Food packaging: the Irish products that have good taste all wrapped upFood packaging and branding isn’t always the enemy – when it’s well designed and honest, it can bring an added layer of pleasureFri Apr 15 2016 - 11:00
