Tasteworks Farm Shop will be open Tuesday 22nd & Wednesday 23rd  December from 12 noon to 7.30pm. Christmas Eve opening from 12 noon to 5pm. Just a note regarding stock - I will only be able to guarantee supplies of vegetables and fruit if they have been ordered this week - I will have stock for Christmas week but it will disappear very ...

Finally I got a chance to do up the new Winter / Spring Schedule...go to Evening Courses page for details!

Co. Cork company Green Saffron is supplying their fantastic spices and blends into Tasteworks. This is a small family company who imports their whole spices, grinds them and sells them in pure form but also in these ingenious blends so that creating authentic tasting zingy Indian food becomes a doddle. Their website is fantastic too as it has lots of ...

2008 into 2009 was a busy time for me, having entered a competition half-heartedly in September 2008, suddenly I was involved in a TV programme for the whole winter getting through all the stages to the final for an innovative chilled baby food based on porridge. A wonder food for everyone, but especially for babies this was a great project to ...

My favourite book to recommend to people with dietary limitations is "What to Eat When You Can't Eat Anything" by Luke & Chupi Sweetman. These two teenagers from Dublin wrote this book out of frustration with cookery books that were dairy free, wheat free, gluten free, or lot of other things..free, but which didn't help people who are sensitive to ...

For anyone who likes beautiful celebration cakes that actually taste good instead of just being a concoction of artificial ingredients made to look pretty, you should check out A Slice of Heaven in Co. Kilkenny. Mary Mc Evoy who was head pastry chef in The Ormonde Hotel Kilkenny for over 7 years and prior to that Derry Clarke's pastry chef ...

At the Kilkenny Food Innovation Network product launch last Saturday in the Castleyard in Castlecomer, 12 food producers unveiled new products to an invited audience of industry experts, restauranteurs, food writers, and food lovers! All were presented as tasting plates and each producer then made a presentation about the product during the tasting sessions. The venue was amazing a real assest ...

A group of food producers have been working together with Kilkenny Enterprise Board for the last 8 months or so to develop new products. We will be launching them on Saturday at Castlecomer as part of the Savour Kilkenny Food Festival. There is a fantastic range of products from Goatsbridge Irish Trout, A Slice of Heaven, Two Little Chefs, Sowan's ...

Christine Jordan, owner of Tasteworks Cookery School Interview Click on "Play Now" below to listen to the interview.

Last year while travelling in the USA I spent some time in the Eastern Shore of Virginia. For anyone who thinks that there's nothing left in this vast country but highways, fast food, and concrete this part of the world demonstrated that there still is an untouched, traditional, genuine America. I got a local recommendation as to where to get ...

From the 23rd to the 26th of October there's  lots going on over the Bank Holiday weekend. In Castlecomer on Saturday 24th there is a launch of new artisan products from producers around the area - one of which is me! There are restaurant events, tasting menus, Halloween games,  a big foodmarket in Kilkenny Castle, Cookery Demonstrations by Kevin Dundon and Anne ...