‘I always associate food with speeches. My family are divils for them’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Olwen Inglis, circulation
Forget Christmas dinner, St Stephen’s Day leftovers are the best
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Amy Burke, graduate programme
‘My brother is home from Australia this Christmas . . . all our catching up will be done around the table’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Orla Ryan, advertising department
‘After half a lifetime searching, my father agreed we had finally perfected pomodoro’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Dominic Coyle, deputy business editor
‘Mum says the cooking baton has been passed on – but to me, I’m still her sous chef’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Ciara Woods, advertising department
‘I know everyone loves their mother’s dinners, but mine is a little different . . . ’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Debbie Clancy, advertising department
In a family of six children, these flapjacks rarely made it as far as a storage box
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Genevieve Carbery, reporter
‘Why am I vegetarian? Distrust of the meat industry and there’s just no need to eat flesh’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Peter Smyth, multi-media journalist
‘I am quite sure the pasta saw its life flash past from seed, to sunshine-baked fields, to harvest, to pasta, to my pot’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Chris Carpenter, web designer
‘To this day I can’t eat a scone without tasting the bitter pang of betrayal’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Rosemary Mac Cabe, fashion journalist
‘I am a typical Irish Mammy’s boy: I go home for dinner and manage to leave with food for the next night or two’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Ian Lambkin, key account executive, rewardingtimes.ie
My most interesting food-based concoction: ‘Aldi Bags Al Fresco on Spikes garnished with Ants’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Patrick Freyne, features writer
‘I pity vegetarians in the same way I pity virgins, teetotallers and men who are not interested in sport’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Ronan McGreevy, news reporter
Our office bromance: built on 1990s rap music, orange juice and fruit
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Brian Morrissey, graduate programme and Vincent Brady, myhome.ie
My pre-Christmas tradition: food, friends and late-night dancing
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Majella Gallagher, head of human resources
Growing up in Cork, there were the Barrs people, our enemies and then there was the Bun Gang
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Eamon Fitzpatrick, advertising director
My food memories: ‘Staying out playing ’til dinner time on Bovril sandwiches, sugar sandwiches, apple sandwiches, Salad Cream sandwiches’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Emma Somers, features department
My favourite recipe: tea brack
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Eleanor Harper, advertising administrator
‘There are hundreds of Coddle recipes, but mine is the true Dublin one’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Joan Scales, travel writer
Pregnancy: the best excuse to nab all the office chocolate
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Caitríona Lannen, online advertising
Why I’ve lost my appetite for eating out as a vegetarian
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Angelo McGrath, premedia department
My show-stopping recipe: Raspberry-infused chocolate ganache with exploding base, served with raspberry ravioli
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Neil Reid, key account manager, MyHome.ie
The most memorable meal I’ve ever had – in the Coombe Hospital
The Irish Times: We Love Food - Alison Healy, food and farming correspondent
My favourite cake recipe: banana and coconut cake
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Pier Wall, inserts manager
My Christmas pudding: ‘We still use the same pot my grandmother used when I was a child’
The Irish Times: We Love Food – Liam Kavanagh, managing director
My food memories: ‘Sandy sandwiches on the beach and milky tea in jam jars’
Eimear Moran, agency sales manager
My favourite Irish cookbook: ‘Use it to cook for people you love, or hope to persuade to love you’
Willy Clingan, managing editor
‘Chocolate is something that binds my family, along with crime novels and old movies’
Orna Mulcahy, editor Saturday Magazine
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