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Riverrun…The Rivers are Alive

Is a river alive? And if the rivers are alive, what is Ireland doing to protect them?

Jan 22 • John and Sally McKenna

Kaldero, Dublin

Hit Me Baby, One More Time

Jan 19 • John and Sally McKenna

Seoul Food & Studio

Belfast's home of cool

Jan 15 • John and Sally McKenna

The 26 People and Places we are most excited about this year….

Jan 12 • John and Sally McKenna

Venezuela in Tallaght

The Priory Market's politics of pleasure.

Jan 8 • John and Sally McKenna

Dublin Restaurants

Doughnut Economics made Insanely Delicious

Aug 28, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

John Wyer and the making of Forêt

Apr 3, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

The Seaweed Stakeholders

Chefs, Harvesters, Products, Educationalists, all using seaweed in Ireland

Mar 17, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

A new shining light for Dublin eating in Portobello.

Feb 24, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Sister 7 @ Fidelity Studio

The Spatial Sonic Spa

Feb 20, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Cork

Making Soba with Takashi

The Art of Sheer Hard Work

Dec 1, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

St Francis Provisions

The spirit of '68 in Kinsale

Nov 13, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

To Market, To Market…

The new Ocras stall in Cork's Marina Market

Sep 11, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Restaurant Review: Alaria

Harbour Hotel, Schull, West Cork

Sep 4, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Ruari’s Kitchen

Aug 11, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Galway

Restaurant review: Fawn

Noble Rotty treats in Oranmore, Co Galway

Nov 6, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

So-Doh! Sourdough

Baking the world a better place

Oct 27, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Within the Village

The wild spirit of south Connemara, distilled and perfected.

Oct 23, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

10 Years of Food on the Edge

Food for the Soul

Oct 20, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

The Promise of Pizza

Summer Substacks: Are we there yet? Ireland’s pizza routes

Jun 26, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Recent posts

How to Do Substack

And who to follow...

Jan 5 • John and Sally McKenna

Food in Fiction

Generation Food to a T.

Jan 1 • John and Sally McKenna

What's In & What's Out for 2026

Okay hipsters, here's the gear you either need to be getting on to, or be getting off of.

Dec 29, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

2025: Our Year of Soul Food

Heartwarming dishes from every corner of Ireland and a Soul Christmas Playlist

Dec 25, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

Lubricating the Christmas spirit

Dec 22, 2025 • John and Sally McKenna

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