St Brigid’s Day 2026: Another Irish Winter Melts Into Spring
Irish winters are dramatic. You have to give them that. Howling gales, sheets of rain, and long dark nights are the downside. But they do have their highlights. Solar storms …
My Top 10 Irish Dishes: 2023
My Top 10 Irish Dishes: 2023 Maybe we are still recovering, but 2023 was a curiously quiet year, Gone is the over-the-top culinary exuberance of the pre-COVID era. The tasting …
Happy New Year: 2023
2023 found us in in Texas with old friends. It was a great way to start the year! Our whirlwind of a holiday month started on December 11th with my …
Life As We Know It: Covid Pandemic
Tourism is the dominant industry in the Burren region of Western Ireland. Now the Burren has gone eerily quiet. No bright green “Paddy Wagon” tour busses whizzing along the narrow …
Twenty Twenty Vision
The end of a decade is upon us and the English-speaking world is weary of political dramas. So let’s turn our attention elsewhere. The time has come,’ the Walrus said, …
Eire-Mex: Cinco de Mayo
Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican army’s victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It is a minor holiday in Mexico, dwarfed in importance by Mexican …
In a Bar with Irish Spring at Hand
Irish Winter is the best season for sitting in pubs and complaining about the weather (while eating oysters and drinking Guinness). I can hold my own at this sport. At …
Chili, Oysters and Our Irish Cottage on Pouldoody Bay
As the fall semester begins, our Irish adventure continues. I am writing about cooking in Ireland for Taste.com and getting together with Ten Speed Press for a Chili Cookbook promotion. …
Cinco de Mayo in London!
ROBB WALSH’S TEX MEX CINCO DE MAYO LUNCH We are pleased to welcome fellow Texan Robb Walsh to Texas Joe’s on Cinco De Mayo this year for a proper Tex …
Starting Over: An East Texan in Western Ireland
Storm Fion, the third named storm of the season is hitting the West Coast of Ireland at the moment. (And we thought we were getting away from Galveston’s tropical storms!) …