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Just got paid? Treat yourself to a ticket to one of these tasty food events

Wine, whiskey and seasonal supper clubs are all on the menu this month

‘My target is people who think they’re not good cooks’: Alice Zaslavsky on her new cookbook

With The Joy of Better Cooking, the Australian chef is aiming to give more people the confidence to get into the kitchen

Danny Africano: “Our job is to feed people, not annoy them with small tastes”

The chef at Lignum in Galway, which is hotly tipped for a Michelin star in 2023, is aiming for generosity when it comes to his menus this year

Tinned fish to cope with inflation: Food and drink trends to watch out for in 2023

How we will eat and drink during this new year? Economically, ethically and sweetly appears to be the answer

Doing The Business

Gut instinct: How King of Kefir’s new canned range has primed it for expansion

Gerry Scullion’s functional drinks business will grow further in 2023 on the back of an investment in canning

Here’s to health: The coach helping hospitality workers achieve a better balance

Hospitality professionals “live in a fast-paced world” and aren’t always great at finding the time to look after their mental and physical states, according to Iain Bell

The sweet life: Tom and Laura Gannon on Cakeface, their Kilkenny patisserie and cookery school

Having set up their business in 2015, the couple now offer cakes, desserts, coffees and cookery lessons

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Out of the frying pan: Jamie Oliver’s bruising encounter with Dublin diners

Jamie Oliver’s new Dublin restaurant got flak over an offensive cartoon before it had even opened its doors – and now that it’s open, the food reviewers have their knives out

Doing The Business

Doing the Business: Sally Barnes on four decades of Cork’s Woodcock Smokery

One of Ireland’s iconic artisan food producers, Barnes is now teaching fish smoking courses in an attempt to pass on the skill to future generations

A philosophical spirit: Oisin Davis on Remy Savage of Shapes bar in London

This month our spirits expert chats with the Franco-Irishman bringing art into cocktail bars

The Insider: interiors finds by Suzie McAdam, how to make your own ice cream, and the housewarming gift that keeps on giving

Notes on living more stylishly

Cookies on repeat, a new Galway seafood bar, and an elegant afternoon tea

All the food news you need this month

Tony Parkin: The new chef at the Cliff House on relocating to Ireland, and aiming for a second Michelin star

After 22 years as a chef in his native England, Tony Parkin has moved to Ardmore to take on the House restaurant at the Cliff House Hotel in west Waterford, and says he’s here for the long haul

‘The old idea that you have to work six days a week and stay open all day to make money is bollocks’

Trevor Moran’s Locust has 36 seats, opens three days a week, doesn’t post menus on its website - and has just been named the best restaurant in America. The Irish chef talks kitchen culture, life in Nashville, and his accidental career in food

Oisin Davis: Warm up with a fruit-infused Irish spirit

Synonymous with winter, drinks like sloe gin are a popular choice as the temperature drops

Appley ever after: Rod and Julie Calder-Potts on running Highbank Orchards

The couple have kept their family business in Kilkenny afloat by adding value to their apples, with a decision to go fully organic key to its success

Karl Whelan: ‘The set-up here means we have to adapt, adapt and adapt some more’

The head chef at Saltwater Grocery is putting his years of experience to work in a tiny space in the Dublin suburbs

Doing The Business

Giselle Makinde of Cream of the Crop on growing her food company

From working in a zero-waste restaurant in Amsterdam to studying the art of Italian ice cream, Brazilian ex-pat Giselle Makinde shares her business story with Jordan Mooney

‘I’m going to give the people what they want’: At Big Mike’s, Gaz Smith plans simple, tasty food

The Dublin chef is about to unveil his most ambitious restaurant, and Gillian Nelis got a sneak preview