Fed up? Gut bacteria may be dictating your appetite
Microbes in digestive tracts could be deciding when you’ve had enough, researchers say
Michel Roux Jr’s Guilty Pleasure: Dark chocolate with a glass of Gossett champagne
“My favourite time to eat it is at home with my wife, catching up on our days but if I’m really honest, I’ll eat it whenever I can!”
‘Celebrating Thanksgiving in a different country, where no one knows what yams are, just isn’t the same’
Ham and cake? Kathleen Harris isn’t happy about her Thanksgiving traditions being turned upside down
My Guilty Pleasure: Pat Kenny’s chilli dog and toffee apple slice
‘I discovered the chilli dog in Atlanta, but can’t find one in Dublin to match my nostalgic craving’
Help yourself and the world by eating more green, less red
Giving up meat is not necessary but people need to stretch their protein horizons
Let baby lead the way to weaning
Baby-led feeding builds a good relationship with food from the start
Swap shop: A Lidl shopper and an M&S fan switch stores for a week
We challenged a discount supermarket aficionado and a luxury food addict to see how the other half shops for one week. Here’s what they found
Darina Allen: 'We didn’t used to be frightened of our food, but now people are terrified'
The Women’s Podcast presents a special episode for Irish Times food month with guests including Darina Allen, Domini Kemp and Catherine Cleary
Watch: Forkful's pickled ginger oysters
This week's Forkful video looks at the Red Bank Food Company's Flaggy Shore oysters and a simple toasted sesame oil and pickled ginger dressing to enjoy them with
Take a Bite out of our food and drink festival
Running until Sunday, Bite at the RDS is the new Irish Times food and drink festival. We sent Anthea McTeirnan along for a taste of the action
Food Forum: Catherine Fulvio answers your questions
Send us your queries now, and have your culinary conundrums answered by Catherine Fulvio and The Irish Times food and wine team this Friday
Meal Ticket: Keshk, Mespil Road, Dublin 4
The culinary traditions of Greece, Turkey and Egypt have been swapped and shared throughout the ages, and it’s these that Keshk’s menu focuses on
‘My Great Irish Bake Off chocolate selection box’
‘There are two things I’ll take from this week; I’ll never make a swiss roll again and don’t try to make fudge under time pressure’
Lilly Higgins’s Bake Off Diary: cracked swiss rolls and chocolate orange cake
Whilst the bakers learn to roll with the punches from their disastrous technical challenge they end on a sweet note with some great showstoppers
Review: Bastible - book it now, while you can
Barry FitzGerald’s culinary pedigree is impeccable, just like his new Dublin 8 restaurant
My Guilty Pleasure: Andrew Rudd’s ribs and mash
‘The ribs were so good they nearly outshone the Trip to Tipp’
Foodfile: Graham Norton's own brand wine, Kelly's cooking and Taste of Mexico
Marie-Claire Digby rounds up this week's food news
Give Me Five: Home-made baked beans
A home-made version of the ultimate convenience food tastes so much nicer
Design a foodie front page of The Irish Times
Create a newspaper page to wrap our Killer Sandwiches and win a great prize
Don’t assume the wurst about German food
Where I Eat, Bavaria: I’ve discovered a wide range of delicious regional cuisine since moving here
My Guilty Pleasure: Gizzi Erskine’s ‘KFC’ (Korean fried chicken)
‘I do my best not to eat it from fast food takeaway joints but sometimes I crave it pretty badly’
Postcard from the Fat Duck
Heston Blumenthal’s flagship restaurant has had a revamp, and the master of culinary creativity is taking diners on a magical journey. Tim Magee was among the first to book a ticket
Second Opinion: Scare stories about food do not and will not change health behaviour
Eating quality red meat no more than three times a week is safe
My Guilty Pleasure: ‘I don’t have one, I have a good solid 10 or 20’
From Pot Noodles to 99s, chef Gary O’Hanlon on why he’s ‘a machine for the grub’
Massimo Bottura: the master of Modena
Italian chef Massimo Bottura, feeds European heads of state one day, Syrian refugees the next. He talks to Catherine Cleary about why two of the world’s most powerful men sat at one of his tables and how he keeps his grandmother in a jar behind his desk
Pauline McLynn: Why I stopped eating meat a year ago
Broadside: ‘I loved the taste of meat but I have always known that I couldn’t kill a creature myself and eat it, so I left the slaughter to others. Now, I can no longer do that’
My Guilty Pleasure: Susan Jane White’s coffee, with salted caramel and hazelnut cream
‘It’s easy to reason that coffee comes from a bean, and that beans are plants, so it’s basically salad’
My Guilty Pleasure: Eileen Dunne’s veal livers with polenta
The owner of Dunne & Crescenzi says she prefers to eat her guilty pleasure while alone
Get stuffed: Maia Dunphy’s plea for a traditional Christmas
Forget your grouse, pheasant and duck breasts, Christmas is one tradition that shouldn’t be messed with. So bring on the child-sized turkey, mountain ofsprouts and a good dollop of indigestion, says Maia Dunphy
Watch: Forkful's beef cheek tacos
Food Month: get your weekly fix of food on screen with this great recipe for beef cheek tacos from Forkful
There’s a Great Irish baker in the house . . .
Neil Reid, ‘Great Irish Bake Off’ contestant and baker of cakes for his myhome.ie colleagues, reveals the ups and downs of appearing in the TV show
Domini Kemp: The 13-minute curry
That’s the shopping time limit, not the cooking time, but it’s still a quick and tasty supper
Food File: Pimp my chocolate, wild Wicklow way and Coolattin cheese
Marie-Claire Digby rounds up this weeks food news
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