Aherne’s Seafood Restaurant
It was a grueling journey down some of the narrowest two-way roads we had experienced on our trip to Ireland. With Ernie behind the wheel of a boat of a rental car and handwritten instructions from the charming, but vague, Irish woman at the restaurant, we managed to arrive […]
Dublin Part Two
Dublin has changed dramatically since my trip back in ’82. As in London, there are so many more creative, healthy and ethnic options for eating than there were then. With champions like Darina Allen of Ballymaloe House and Cookery School there’s a focus on buying […]
Dublin Part One
I hadn’t been in Dublin since 1982 when my boss called me to her office and blurted out she was terrified of flying and could I please go to Ireland the next day, Thanksgiving, in her place. I called my husband and said “Save me some leftovers.”
Thanksgiving dinner, 1982 — boiled […]