Professional cookery courses: are they worth their salt?

Can crash courses in everything food-related set you up for a career of culinary greatness?

Our favourite cookbooks for your favourite cook

Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver all feature in our 2017 top-10

Shortlists announced for the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2017

Among the nominees are Ryan Tubridy, Cecelia Ahern, John Banville, Molly McCloskey, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

Kitchen confidence: young chefs opening their own restaurants

A new breed of Irish food professionals are taking the plunge and opening their own restaurants

The hot and cold of chef school

Colleges and cookery schools around the country are drawing in students of all ages. So why is there such a shortage of chefs going to work in Irish kitchens?

Shortage of chefs in Ireland reaches boiling point

Restaurant owners say situation is at ‘crisis levels’ and threatens hospitality industry

Alaskan cook conquers Dublin

Epi Rogan’s beef cheeks dish wins her a place on a three-month professional course

Dublin Cookery School course place up for grabs

A baker’s dozen of Irish books shortlisted in world cookbook awards

Books by Darina Allen and her brother Rory O’Connell among those getting the nod

My favourite Irish cookbook: ‘Use it to cook for people you love, or hope to persuade to love you’

Willy Clingan, managing editor