This year, for Halloween, I made these awful looking eyeballs for our shops. They are not hard to do, and they are quite tasty! If you wish to make them, you will need chocolate moulds, round ice...

My brother Sean wants to head over the the US to visit ice cream shops, and he would love your suggestions as to which ice cream shops he should visit. (Could he manage 100 shops in 7 days?) He...

An Grianán, the health food shop in Dingle, has renovated and added a few tables for lunch. It's a welcome change from the usual fare, with a small but tasty selection of organic food and freshly squeezed juices.

I promised a customer, who loved this tart, that I would post the recipe. It’s closely based on a recipe from Simply Sensational Desserts by Francois Payard, with the only difference a slight modification in the sugar. I have found that Payard’s book...

Murphys Ice Cream was given a “Kerry Food Hero” award at the Listowel Food Fair last night. It’s the first award of it’s kind in Kerry, and it’s humbling, since we have so many food heroes of our own, both within the country and around Ireland. There...

 I am ashamed to admit that I’ve never been to the Listowel Food Fair, since something has always seemed to come up with the business during it, but I am going this year (it’s on from the 5th  – 8th of November), no matter what. I have heard so much...

As an ice cream man and not an economist, I’ve been trying to avoid getting angry about how the current economic mess is being handled in this country, but that is becoming increasingly difficult. The government seems to have only two plans of action:...

Photo from irishtimes.com I have an article in today’s Irish Times Magazine, about the state of Irish food. It was edited down a bit for space and clarity, so I thought I might publish the full version here, complete with links: In the lead-up to...