Illustration courtesy of Wix My son Eoin is home from San Francisco for a week to attend a stag-party and, separately, a wedding of two of his friends. The fact that it clashes with my birthday is a happy coincidence! (Thanks and good luck to Séamus, Rebecca and Domo!) Eoin loves his food and the quality of our Irish food is one of the aspects of life that he really misses while living abroad. Where and when they can, he and his wife try to shop and buy produce in farmers' ma

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