Category: Cookery Courses

  • A foodie's guide to Kerry

    Heading to the Kingdom this summer? Eva Schmid of Kerry’s Ard na Sidhe hotel has put together this really delightful and useful infographic on Kerry’s food festivals, cafes and tea rooms, cooking courses, farmers markets and food stores. The Kenmare Food Carnival has been and gone, but there’s plenty more places left to visit, including…

  • Getting Good Value on Wine

    Yesterday I wrote about my (very enjoyable and informative) experience at the Donnybrook Fair Wine Club, a four week evening course in wine appreciation.  Far from being a poncy aristocratic experience, the course teacher Laura Peterson was very focused on value and had lots of great tips about getting good deals.  She also had lots…

  • Wine Club in Donnybrook Fair

    We often get asked for opinions about wine, or asked to review wine here on CheapEats, but unfortunately we know flip all about it.  So it was fairly serendipitous when Donnybrook Fair got in touch to ask if someone from the blog would attend and review their Wine Club four week course for beginners. My…

  • Preview: Rozanne Stevens Cookery Course

    A couple of Saturdays ago I hauled myself out of bed, ate breakfast on autopilot and headed out to Rozanne Stevens’ An Introduction to Healthy Eating. It  incorporated recipes from ‘A Month of Meals’ and ‘Green Living’- two weekend courses happening in the new year. I needn’t have bothered with breakfast as we were given…

  • Review: Cookery Classes at Ballyknocken Cookery School

    When it comes to cooking I’m a bit like Jedward. I’ll throw myself into it enthusiastically and ignore anyone who turns up their noses or says I’ll never make it in America. So when a friend won a weekend in Wicklow”s Ballyknocken House (including morning cookery class) I accepted the invite, thinking I’d enjoy the…