When I started writing this blog over a year ago, the main intention was to record how different our lives have become now that we are living in the country. Until I started to write I never realised just how much of our life revolves around food!
And, of course, since we started to keep the pigs, ducks, hens and turkeys, it has become even more so!
But we are not alone.
We first met some of the Irish foodies when they came on a visit in June and that was a wonderful afternoon, but since then there has been so much more that has happened. In October I went along and spent 2 days at the Savour Kilkenny festival. At the beginning of this month, I attended the Food Photography Workshop which was delivered by Sharon Hearne Smith of Blueberry Pie and Donal Skehan of Good Mood Food Blog.
The workshop was terrific. I learned so much in the few hours with them! Thank you both for sharing your knowledge. Mind you I think I will be looking at photos in cookery books completely differently from now on! Did you know that often that wonderful looking pie may well be stuffed with tinfoil! Or that the bowl of soup may well have a ramekin in it to prop up the veg! 🙂 I haven’t resorted to such tricks yet, but have been considering my props and have cleared an area that is now designated food photography spot!
My first attempts at setting up shots have not been terrific…. I need to practice, practice, practice!
Over the past year it has been wonderful to meet other people who are so passionate about food.
It has also been further indictment of how small this country of ours really is!
Meeting people like Ken from Any Given Food and realising that we’ve known each other years! or Joanna from Smorgasblog – whose Dad I used to work with!
Caroline from Bibliocook and Kristin from Dinner Du Jour have put in so much work in getting all the Irish Foodies organised. There is now the monthly cookalong, and their most recent effort Irish Food Bloggers Association. Well done you two, what a terrific idea.
I am sorry to be missing the next meet up in Limerick this weekend, but am looking forward to more foodie meet ups in 2011!
Pity you can’t make Limerick but yay to more foodie meets in 2011!
I know Gillian would love to go to Limerick… but it clashes with the rugby match and I got a present of a ticket to that!
Maybe 2011 will be the year of foodie outing to the seaside tho!
M
Here’s to more foodie shots Margaret, and no doubt we’ll be meeting up sooner than 20 years or so with all the foodie events coming up 🙂