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A Boutique Festival Celebrating All Things Food and Drink at Beyond the Pale

Beyond The Plate is a celebration of all things food & drink at Beyond The Pale. Festival goers can feast from some of the best Irish street food vendors and enjoy a stellar line-up of talks, tastings, chats, demos and craic on the dedicated food & drink stage.  This summer the Beyond The Plate stage, curated …

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The first book in the new 2023 Blasta Books series, SOUP, out now

While recording an episode for season 2 of their Spice Bags podcast on the topic of soup, authors Blanca Valencia, Dee Laffan and Mei Chin realised that while they are all from completely different backgrounds, cultures and upbringings, soup is a common ground. But why soup? The answer is that soup connects us all. Everyone …

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Samhain 2022 Announces A-List Line-up As Food Festival Returns To Kells November 3rd To 6th

Boyne Valley Flavours has announced an enviable line-up of award-winning chefs, best-selling cookbook authors, culinary experts, and international guest speakers for this autumn’s Samhain Food Festival – now in its fourth year.  Some of the biggest names in Irish food will head to the heritage town of Kells, Co. Meath for what promises to be …

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Nighmarket Is Hosting a Fabulous Five Course Thai Dinner for a Great Cause

Nightmarket Is Hosting a Fabulous Five Course Thai Dinner for a Great Cause

Food writer Dee Laffan has teamed up with Nightmarket Restaurant in Ranelagh to host a very special five course dinner in aid of MS Ireland. The event will take place on the 14th of March from 7:00 pm and it will feature a memorable menu of delectable Thai flavours. The selection of dishes to be enjoyed on the …

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Executive Pastry Chef Aoife Noonan Gives the Inside Scoop on Glovers Alley

Aoife Noonan has the kind of career that some dream of. She makes desserts for a living(!) for a start, which just has to be fun. Plus the portfolio of restaurants she has worked with is very impressive… pastry chef for Ireland’s two Michelin star Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud and more recently working for the John …

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Eat. Drink. Sleep. Repeat. 12 Restaurants to Help With Your New Year’s Resolutions

A new year guarantees to herald one thing – a suite of resolutions to be healthier and more upstanding human beings in general, that will most likely be broken by the end of the first month! We all have great intentions, but there is simply no substance to them. Hence why Dee Laffan has created …

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Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire…Top Chefs Share Their Favourite Christmas Food Memories

We all have cherished food memories that make us close our eyes and immediately give us a Christmas feeling, or that one ingredient or dish that the festive season just wouldn’t be the same without. Dee Laffan spoke to a selection box of Ireland’s best chefs to find out what Christmas tastes like to them, …

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Best Possible Taste Podcast- Food Writer Dee Laffan on Her Trek to Everest

In this week’s Best Possible Taste food writer Dee Laffan discusses her pending expedition to Everest Base Camp in aid of MS Ireland. Dee recently organised a fundraiser dinner at Monty’s, which helped her exceed her fundraising target for the trek. Author https://www.thetaste.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/La-Reserve-8-1.png Meaney talks to Sharon about a “Novel Supper” which she will be …

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Veuve Clicquot To Host Stunning Masquerade Ball at Body & Soul Festival

From Champagne to Spice Bags – Body & Soul is Foodie Heaven this Weekend

Body&Soul is a bizarre and beautiful banquet and is far more than a music festival. This weekend, from 23-25th June, the festival is offering an unmissable gastronomic experience for lovers of fine food and drink too. Feeding the body and nourishing the soul, festival foodies are invited to join Food on Board and Veuve Clicquot …

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Camerino Bakery Pops Up at Eatyard this Saturday with Cake Sale and Baking Demo

Just in time for Easter, Camerino Bakery will be popping up at Dublin’s street food market, Eatyard, with a bake sale and some baking demos on Saturday 15th April. Award winning baker Caryna Camerino will show us how to make Challah, a traditional Jewish bread and give us her best Easter cake decorating tips. Caryna …

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