The Irish Mother

"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate" ~ Jo Brand I hesitated to post this, despite my love of the recipe, because I k...

"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see how they are made." ~Otto Von Bismarck (1815-1898) This is something that I...

"If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat." ~Amanda Peet This post is for my friend K...

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." ~Mark Twain There were lots of things my mother tra...

"Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love." ~M.F.K. Fisher, How to Cook a Wolf (1942) "Wo...

"Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier...

"Did you ever see the customers in health food stores?  They are pale, skinny people who look half dead.  In a steak house you see robu...