July 2023
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Christmas in July! (August, Too!
Depending on when you read this, there are about 150 days until Christmas! Shocking, I know, but you can get a head start on shopping for all the cooks in your family by taking advantage of the “Christmas in July” preview of my holiday cookbook Festive Flavors of Ireland. However, if you’re barely surviving the current heat wave and think it’s too early to start thinking about Christmas (shopping or eating), here’s a recipe from […] Read More
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Join a Trip to Visit the Grave of a Lady of Knock Witness in New York City
Photo of Knock Shrine in County Mayo taken by Denise Foley On a rainy August night in 1879, a five-year-old boy named John Curry witnessed one of the most significant events in Irish Catholic history while sitting on the shoulders of his 11-year-old cousin. There, on the south gable of the Church of St, John the Baptist in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, little John and more than a dozen other local residents saw an apparition […] Read More