breakfast

OH FOR GOD’S SAKE, TELL ME SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW…

The Daily Telegraph is today reporting that bacon sandwiches cure hangovers. I’m afraid, this probably isn’t the scoop of the year for too many people. Incidentally, here’s an article I wrote for the Irish Times when pork was recalled back in December last year. It earned me a mention on What It Says In The Papers and also, fleetingly, the respect and admiration of my friends and family.

Published: Irish Times, December 10 2008

IMAGINE NO MORE FRY UPS

With pork off the menu, can one Irishman survive without his traditional breakfast? asks Eoin Butler .

AS THE FALLOUT from the weekend recall of Irish pork continues to be felt across a range of sectors, there is one area in which its implications are already quite clear. The traditional Irish breakfast, for the time being at least, is off the menu.

For generations, breakfast has been a meal that nourished the Irish soul. In times past, an Irishman might have awoken to find his potatoes blighted, his religion proscribed or his children exiled. But put a plate of rashers, sausages and black pudding down in front of him and suddenly things didn’t look so bad. Read the rest of this entry »