Joe McNamee
Senior Food Writer at Irish Examiner
Eats for pleasure/writes about it for money | Senior Food Writer @irish_examiner etc | Ringmaster @grubcircus | Member @FoodGuild |
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee
May is upon us once more, and as a proud May baby, I have no hesitation in saying it is the finest month of the year; is there another with the same invigorating sense of vibrant new energy and possibility, including the fingers-crossed possibility of an actual summer ahead. May is when those early pathfinders of April, asparagus and rhubarb, are superseded by the first real flush of the new growing season.
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1 week ago |
irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee
Hidden up a narrow laneway in Ballinskelligs, just off the Cahirsiveen Rd, it would be just another standard Irish rural bungalow were it not for the exceptionally lush planting bringing a tropical feel to this remote part of South Kerry. Formerly Stephen O’Connell’s childhood residence, it is now home to him, Alexis Bowman, and their three children.
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2 weeks ago |
irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee
La daughter and I have surrendered to Sunday afternoon serendipity, mooching around town with no plan other than that it might involve books, records, makeup, and whatever weird and random shops en route catch our fancy. Strangely, we had forgotten entirely about food until we find ourselves outside The Dosa Spot (TDS), its bright and cheery aspect triggering our appetites. The effect is more pronounced within.
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2 weeks ago |
irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee
I threw a couple of recently purchased sausages on the pan for a quick evening supper. It resulted in an extraordinary supper but it was not quick, for these sausages bore little or no relation to your regular supermarket bangers. They were almost twice the size, densely packed with free-range pork mince, and easily weathered 25 minutes of slow cooking. The first bite triggered a rare moment of epicurean ecstasy, when all you can do is whimper with pleasure.
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3 weeks ago |
irishexaminer.com | Joe McNamee
My middle child turns 18 this summer and he will go to a restaurant with his teenage tribe to celebrate. He and his friends have been marking their birthdays in restaurants, flying solo without adult supervision, since they were 14 and it’s entirely of their own choosing. My firstborn, now in his mid-30s, is similarly inclined. Though not averse to a party, he can nonetheless go for an age without the pub, more than happy to socialise in a restaurant or a coffee shop.
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