Take a leaf out of this Cookbook

The Cookbook Café, 57a Glasthule Road, Glasthule, Co Dublin. Tel: 01-5597999. Web: cookbookcafe.ie. Chef: Audrey McDonald.

The Cookbook Café, Glasthule, Co Dublin: refreshingly unpretentious. Picture: Feargal Ward
The Cookbook Café, Glasthule, Co Dublin: refreshingly unpretentious. Picture: Feargal Ward

Is there anything more off-putting, more mind-numbingly dull, than food snobbery? There’s a lot of it about these days, thanks to an increasing preponderance of individuals who think that their particular food choices somehow make them better people than the rest of us.

You know the type. They recoil in horror at the mere mention of processed food. They wouldn’t be caught dead in ...