Food
The meals we remember are rarely only about the food.
Recipes and food stories from Kerry, Ireland and further afield, shaped by the tables, people and places that made them worth remembering.
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The Soup That Was Already There
A story I used to tell in a classroom with an imaginary stone, and a lesson I learned years earlier in a restaurant kitchen: the good stuff is usually already there, if you’re willing to look for it. With a recipe for curried apple and parsnip soup.
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Grazie, Davy
A recipe book that has lived in our kitchen for so long I’d almost stopped seeing it. Then one page — and two words at the bottom of it — stopped me completely.
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Nanny’s Magpie Pies
Some recipes survive because somebody wrote them down. Others survive because nobody ever forgot being fed. This one is the second kind.
