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Spud Sunday: Picnic Spuds
Well now, this is clearly not so much Spud Sunday as it is Tuber Tuesday. Sorry to keep yiz all waiting but, in my defence, I offer up two words: Electric Picnic. The mammoth festival of music, comedy,...
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Spud Sunday: Vive La Bread Revolution
It seems an unlikely place to start a revolution: a tiny island off the coast of far west Cork, inhabited by less than 30 people and without even pub to call its own. And yet Heir Island is now home...
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Tilling For Oil
Prompted, perhaps, by the fact that the TV series Dallas had just recently returned to our small screens, I couldn’t help but smile at the thought that I had been invited to visit an oil business run...
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Spud Sunday: Wild Spuds
Irish woodland: beech trees abound but spuds, not so much This weekend found me foraging about in the wilds of Co. Cavan (or perhaps the not-so-wilds, given that I was in the rather lovely surroundings...
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A Walk On The Wild Side
I was much braver as a child. At least I thought nothing of picking – and, more to the point, eating – field mushrooms when, at around this time of year, they would poke their heads above the soily...
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Spud Sunday: Forty Shades Of Potato
I had potatoes coming at me everywhere I turned. In Ireland, “and chips” is a phrase that annotates much more than fish. For Frank Bruni, former New York Times restaurant critic and now Op-Ed...
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Tipp Top Traas
Even before cattle were here, apples were grown Con Traas of The Apple Farm Somehow, during the course of the dinner, I managed to make a note of the comment above by Con Traas. The venue was Avoca’s...
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Spud Sunday: East of Cork
Ballycotton's finest: you know you're in East Cork when... I seek ‘em here, I seek ‘em there, I seek them potatoes everywhere (a fact which, to be fair, will come as no surprise to even the most...
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Spud Sunday: Man of Za’atar
Sometimes, when all around are talking turkey, it’s good to step away from the crowd (we are, as memorably observed in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, all individuals after all). So here is something a...
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Spud Sunday: Mash Monday
Spud Sunday, Mash Monday – what’s a day between friends, eh? There was far too much gallivanting going on in Spud-land to get this out on the usual Sunday schedule, so here’s your...
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Spud Sunday: A Few Of My Favourite Things
When Expedia asked me about my favourite places to eat around Ireland, a lederhosen-bedecked part of me could hear Julie Andrews singing about a few of her favourite things in an alpine, Sound of...
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Spud Sunday: An Spud-Off Mór
One word to say it all:signage for the Spud-Off Mór at Tigh T.P.’s in Baile na nGall (Ballydavid) on the Dingle Peninsula That’s pure true. That was T.P.’s response when it was suggested that the story...
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Spud Sunday: The Best Possible Taste
Ah yes, the eagle-eyed among you will observe that this week’s Sunday installment is suffering from two day delay syndrome. What can I say except that a week spent in the U.K. will do that to a body,...
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Spud Sunday: The Loy Of The Land
Champion Spuds:Bord Bia Potato Champion 2013, David Curran, from Fethard, Co. Tipperary (centre) with John Donohue, Tullamore Show Horticulture Organiser (left) and Lorcan Bourke of Bord Bia (right) As...
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Spud Sunday: Better Through Food
So, the Irish Blog Awards are over and done with for this year, and though I didn’t become the possessor of any new trophyware this weekend, I was mightily pleased to see the gong in my category, Best...
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Spud Sunday: The Big Boxty
Too much happening and too little time to write about it – that has most definitely been the pattern in Daily Spud land of late. Among other things, your intrepid spud reporter has just spent ten days...
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Spud Sunday: Toronto & Chips
There are many things you might find yourself doing on a Saturday morning – being a guest, this past Saturday, of broadcasting legend Dave Fanning on his weekend radio show on RTE’s 2FM was one of the...
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Spud Sunday: Prince Edward Island
Well now, this post has been a long time coming. Having been sucked into the black hole that is house renovation, the Daily Spud has become closer to the monthly spud, while prospective posts have...
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Spud Sunday: Notes From A Spud Island
PEI, it’s potato country here – it’s a big part of who we are as an island, a big part of who we are as a culture Kendra Mills, Marketing Director, PEI Potato Board The first thing, the very first...
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Spud Sunday: A Spud’s Museum
They say we produce the most potatoes per person in the world. So Stanley MacDonald commented casually as we sat in the café at Prince Edward Island‘s potato museum, munching through cinnamon rolls...
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