By Nathan Carey I will never quite forget the first time I tasted authentic ramen. In 2017 I had the privilege to travel to Japan. During my two week sojourn, I made it my priority to try as much food as possible. At one point during my stay, after marvelling at the ‘snow monkeys’ bathing…
By Nathan Carey When you walk past the spice aisle in your local supermarket one can quickly become overwhelmed by the wall of small glass vessels filled with colourful powders, flakes and pastes. There are hundreds of spices used worldwide, in a number of amazing cuisines. This quick guide will provide you with the history…
By Nathan Carey My name is Nathan and I’m heading into my final year as a Neuroscience student. I’ve always had a love for food but living away from home in my first year of college really helped me to hone my skills and become efficient at cooking my own meals. Through studying the brain…
By Maeve O’Keeffe, Food & Health Editor Have you ever felt that crippling sense of hunger, when your insides feel like they have been hollowed out with an ice cream scoop? Your roommate has tucked into your leftover pizza, or stir-fry that you had kept in a Tupperware lunchbox in the fridge. The nice cheese…
By Sarah O’Connor Gut health, or the health of your intestines, affects both physical and mental health. Here in UCC, research into the interaction of the brain and gut is leaping forward thanks to the work of UCC Professors like John Cryan and Ted Dinan, co-authors of The Psychobiotic Revolution, a book that has been…
By Maeve O’Keefe, Food & Health Editor With our generation’s heightened concerns about climate change and sustainability, many young people are striving towards environmentalism by making dietary changes to reduce their consumption of animal produce. Their environmental concerns are not misplaced. As a sector accounting for 7.7% of Ireland’s total employment, the agri-food sector is…
By Maeve O’Keefe, Food & Health Editor “Think of the standard, broke, college student’s diet, that’s made up of your beans on toast, pasta, sandwiches and chicken fillet rolls, pizza, cans of Heineken, Guinness… They all have gluten in them, so it’s a constant thing I need to be thinking about when eating or drinking,”…
By Maeve O’Keefe – Food & Health Editor A routine scroll through your social media feed can often feel like a bombardment of messaging about health and wellbeing. Every day, there appears to be a new Instagram influencer hailing an obscure detox tea for a perfectly hourglass figure, gummies for miraculously long shiny hair, and…
Smell is one of our most evocative senses. Imagine the smell of Crayola crayons and jelly babies, and you are transported to the Junior Infants classroom in your local primary school, or the odour of wet dog that will make you crave a 99 like you’re in the back of the car after a day…
Last Christmas, my mother and I tore about Dunnes Stores back home in Kilkenny in search of TK Red Lemonade. We were frantic, returning to the soft drinks again and again with furrowed brows, until eventually, my mother boldly declared that she ‘didn’t care anymore, they’d just have to make do with white lemonade.’…