Butter
I was raised on spray-on cooking oils and low-fat, low-cholesterol, always-spreadable tubs of anemic yellow goo with ridiculous long names and cartoon cows on the packaging. My austere English mother...
View ArticleTea
My fondest food memory is of coming home from school to sit with my mother at the kitchen table to drink tea and eat cake. Sometimes she listened as I told her about my day, sometimes I knew to sit...
View ArticleSmoke
To my mind, there is little more heavenly and evocative than the flavour of smoke. Smoke adds a depth and muskiness that makes the base flavour of whatever is being smoked more luxurious. I always...
View ArticleRoasted White Chocolate
Roasted white chocolate is the sophisticated alter ego of the flaccid, frumpy, sugary stuff we have come to know and hate. Think of it like the secret self of the bored suburban housewife, just...
View ArticleWinter Citrus
This Mothers’ Day I received one of my loveliest commissions to date. I was given the task of designing a cake for four mothers who would be celebrating Mothering Sunday together. The mother who...
View ArticleBrooklyn
On visiting New York I had presupposed that Manhattan would be the biggest draw, especially in terms of food. I found myself in Brooklyn almost entirely by chance, owing to the fact that it cost a...
View ArticleA Very Good Year
Happy New Year! I have a feeling that 2014 is going to be a fantastic year for Wildflour Bakery, even better than 2013, which was a very good year indeed. I got the opportunity to create amazing cakes...
View ArticleSpring Cottage Organic Farm
I first met Rosie O’Sullivan when I took a stall at Honest2Goodness market in Glasnevin. Rosie had a neighbouring stall for her organic fruit and vegetables and I immediately fell in love with her...
View ArticleSalt
Salt: one of the most base and essential compounds, dialectical in nature, alchemical by design. Salt is essential to the human body. Too little will kill you. Too much will kill you. In Western...
View ArticleCherry Blossom 桜
For me, cherry blossom season is the most exquisite time of the year. It heralds spring, filling the world with pink and white blossoms; it is nature’s festivity. The cherry tree is of the prunus...
View ArticleThe YBF Awards : an epic adventure
Photo c/o Felicity Spector Last month I received the tremendously exciting news that I was a finalist in the baking category of The Young British Foodie Awards (The YBFs), which ‘seeks out and...
View ArticleChristmas at Wildflour Bakery
Christmas is nearly upon us and this year I have designed a bespoke range of festive cakes to add a touch of glamour to the Christmas dinner table, all of which are available to order and the full...
View ArticleWildflour’s Christmas Secret Garden Party
In the intimate setting of a walled, roofed garden nestled in Dublin 7, a fire shall be burning, candles and lights shall be twinkling and the cool, crisp winter’s chill shall be offset by the heat...
View ArticleLilliput Stores, Stoneybatter
The new year sees the beautiful and resilient Lilliput Stores returned to its original location at 5 Rosemount Terrace, on Arbour Hill in Stoneybatter. It is arguably the most perfectly formed...
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