LONGUEVILLE HOUSE HOT APPLE CIDER Longueville House Beverages Hot Apple Cider recipe – mulled with cinnamon, cloves and orange and spiked with brandy. This Longueville House Beverages Hot Cider recipe is part of a series of posts from my Munster Vales travel guide. It’s also one of three posts on Longueville House. Part one is a review of the hotel and grounds and part two is a review of the dinner and breakfast in the Longueville House Restaurant. Skip story and go straight to recipe If you read my last blog post, you’ll know that Longueville House has just won ‘Best Breakfast in an Irish...

  Over the past week, a food festival took place in Cork to launch the Old Butter Roads Food Trail.      The idea is to use the traditional butter roads that led to Cork City via Kanturk, Macroom, Mallow, and Mitchelstown as reference points for high-quality locally produced food and beverages. A series of events are planned during this summer to help promote food and local eateries for tourists and Irish people alike. Presumably social media will be employed to drive the initiative and give it oxygen as it evolves. This idea is a useful reminder of the role...