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January 10, 2012

Unwrapped: Green and Black’s Chocolate Recipes edited by Caroline Jeremy

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Unwrapped: Green and Black's Chocolate Recipes Author: edited by Caroline Jeremy Genre: Cookery

Since I first saw this in our local Oxfam shop in Dublin I’ve been having lustful thoughts about it. Green & Black produce fabulous organic Fair Trade chocolate – their spice/orange Maya Gold bar heading the list of my all time favourite chocolates – and the photos that I saw on a brief browse through the book were mouth-watering

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Watermark by Sean O’Reilly

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The DJ @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Watermark Author: Sean O'Reilly Genre: General Fiction, Irish

Sean O’Reilly’s last novel, The Swing of Things, focuses on two men who are barely managing to keep their heads above the rising tide of Dublin’s darker side. Suspended in a sort of self-destructive bubble, they seem resolved to wander in an existential fug, trying to discover where they should go in life.

In his new novel, Watermark

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Call Me Elizabeth by Dawn Annandale

Filed under: Book Reviews,Biography — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Call Me Elizabeth Author: Dawn Annandale Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Warner Books Release Date: 2006 Pages: 290

Dawn Annandale did not have a particularly pleasant childhood, her father began to sexually abuse her when she was eleven. She spent her teenage years coming up with excuses to stay away from home and at the earliest opportunity she got a job and moved out. Her childhood did nothing for her, except to make her crave a happy, secure and safe environment

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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Gilead Author: Marilynne Robinson Genre: Fiction Publisher: Macmillan Release Date: 2004 Pages: 247

In 1981 Marilynne Robinson published her first novel, Housekeeping. The book was so well received that Robinson has managed to maintain a devoted audience ever since. Now she has published Gilead; although undoubtedly a new masterpiece, it is nothing like her previous success.

Reverend John Ames is 76 and close to death. As a way to soften the blow

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Moneystown’s Real Food for Real People

Filed under: Book Reviews,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Real Food for Real People Author: Various Genre: Cookery

As charity cookbooks go, Real Food for Real People is a real gem. The book is part of a fundraising drive for Moneystown National School’s building fund and was produced and published by the Parents’ Committee in this County Wicklow village. But, even though Real Food for Real People was evidentially done on a shoestring, the design quality

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Simply Irresistible French Desserts by Christelle Le Ru

Filed under: Book Reviews — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Simply Irresistible French Desserts Author: Christelle Le Ru, Vanessa Jones, Genre: Cooking Publisher: Christelle Le Ru Release Date: 2005 Pages: 102

Why is it that recipe names look so much more evocative when written in French? Gâteau au chocolate et à l’abricot seems so much more sophisticated than just plain Chocolate apricot cake. Still, from the look of this slice of this moist dark cake pictured in Christelle Le Ru’s Simply Irresistible French Desserts I don’t think

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Stay by Aislinn Hunter

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction,Irish — The Writer @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Stay Author: Aislinn Hunter Genre: Fiction Publisher: Anchor Books Release Date: 2013-08-15 Pages: 279

What is it about Ireland that inspires people to write? The jacket sleeve says that Ontario-born Aislinn Hunter lived in Dublin “for a few years” before returning home to base herself in Vancouver. She has already published a book of short stories and two of poetry and this, her debut novel, was shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada

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Jenny Bristow: A Taste of Sunshine

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: A Taste of Sunshine Author: Jenny Bristow Genre: Cooking Publisher: Blackstaff Press Release Date: 2006-02-01 Pages: 128

Northern Irish cookery writer, radio and UTV television presenter Jenny Bristow has chosen to concentrate on Mediterranean food in her latest book, A Taste of Sunshine. With an emphasis on variety, simple ingredients and cooking meals from fresh raw unprocessed ingredients, Jenny comes firmly down on the side of healthy cooking. She doesn’t

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Last Chance to Eat: The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World by Gina Mallet

Filed under: Book Reviews,Irish,Cookery — The Historian @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Last Chance to Eat Author: Gina Mallet Genre: Cooking Publisher: W. W. Norton Release Date: 2004-08-01 Pages: 386

Although cursed with an uninviting cover, Last Chance to Eat, with its investigations into the history and eating of a variety of foodstuffs, is a fascinating read for anyone with even the barest interest in food. For foodies, it should be essential.

Toronto-based Gina Mallet uses her particular memories – a post-WWII childhood in egg-less Britain

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Like Nowhere Else by Denyse Woods

Filed under: Book Reviews,General Fiction — The Techie @ 12:55 pm
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Title: Like Nowhere Else Author: Denyse Woods Genre: Ireland Release Date: 2005 Pages: 336

Before this I had never read a book that aroused in me such an interest in a country that I previously knew nothing about. In Like Nowhere Else our main character, Vivien, fell in love with Yemen through travel books when she was younger. She has now travelled to Yemen to see it for herself. En route she meets anthropologist Christian Linklater and

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