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Happy 250th Birthday, Dear Guinness
[Photo: Carey Jones] Pull a pint and raise your glass: Guinness turns 250 years old today, marking a quarter-millennium (!) since Arthur Guinness took over a brewery at St. James's Gate, in Dublin... on a 9,000 year lease. (Here's hoping that gives us 8,750 more years of the black stuff.) Honoring the occasion? Join drinkers across the world in a toast today at 17:59, Dublin time. (That's a minute to one in the afternoon on the East Coast. But nothing wrong with that—Guinness is good for you.)...You Can't Even Drink Away the Misery
The crap economy has forestalled Guinness's plans to open a "super brewery." St. James Gate, the company's historic Dublin brewery, was to consolidate older buildings and sell off the freed-up land to finance the new operation. But, as the Wall Street Journal reports, that's down the drain now....Irish Carve Turnips Instead of Pumpkins
Carved turnip with vision troubles. Photograph from soozums on Flickr My Irish kin have some interesting Halloween customs, including turnip-o-lanterns. The jack-o-lantern creation story actually starts with a turnip in Ireland during the 18th century. A blacksmith named Jack dropped a coal ember into a gouged-out turnip, and so it began. When Irish immigrants arrived in America, they substituted turnips with pumpkins—much plumper, and thus, better carving potential....A Guide to Cork City's English Market
A lot of things taste better in Ireland: the Guinness, the farmhouse cheese, the fried pork, the dirty spuds. Since some of us aren't ready to ditch the St. Patrick's-ian mindset, here's a guide to one of the Emerald Isle's best culinary destinations: The English Market in Cork City, an indoor covered market hall and Ireland's answer to the lively, delicious Turkish bazaars. It's been around since 1786, and is just as much an institution as University College Cork up the road. Here's a guide to Cork's English Market, open Monday through Saturday (9 AM - 5 PM) with entrances on Grand Parade and Princes Streets in downtown Cork City. And yes, the title is confusing. Shouldn't it really...For St. Patrick's Day, A Proper Pint
A nonic pint (left) and a tulip pint (right) flank fish and chips at Mc Donagh's, Galway, Ireland Not all pint glasses are created equal. In Ireland and Great Britain the internal volume of so-called "pint glasses" is regulated by state authorities in accordance with the imperial system of measure. As such, a state sanctioned pint glass (indicated by an official mark etched on each glass: a crown in the U.K., a circle bisected by a wavy line in the Republic of Ireland, or, in accordance with recent standards set to unify the mark throughout the European Union, the letters “CE” *) must hold a minimum of 20 imperial fluid ounces (the equivalent of about 19 US fluid ounces,...Best Irish Cheese Farmhouses in County Cork
Most are teeny-tiny, with more sheep and cows than actual humans on property. Hardly any have formal visiting hours, but most farmers are happy to orchestrate mini tours via email. In honor of St. Patrick's Day next week, here's our guide to the best rural cheese farmhouses in County Cork, Ireland.Calling All Ice Cream Recipe Testers
Need an excuse to break out your ice cream machine? Kieran and Sean Murphy, founders of Murphy's Ice Cream in Dingle, Ireland, are recruiting bloggers to test recipes for their upcoming Ice Cream Ireland book. Help them out by picking a recipe and posting the results on your blog!...Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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