This small bakery, which presents its treats, both savoury and sweet, on vintage dressers and mismatched tables

Order your sandwich on Twitter today and collect it at The Irish Times office this Friday

Giving up meat is not necessary but people need to stretch their protein horizons

Baby-led feeding builds a good relationship with food from the start

We challenged a discount supermarket aficionado and a luxury food addict to see how the other half shops for one week. Here’s what they found

‘It was a touch messy, but despite what Lilly said, my sponge was not dry Ms Higgins!’

The Women’s Podcast presents a special episode for Irish Times food month with guests including Darina Allen, Domini Kemp and Catherine Cleary

The SMS Luna manager takes a break from fine food every Monday evening

This week's Forkful video looks at the Red Bank Food Company's Flaggy Shore oysters and a simple toasted sesame oil and pickled ginger dressing to enjoy them with

‘Not the fancy ones with added pickle or flavourings. No, the cheap ones with all the gristle and hoofs’

Checkout staff notice changing consumer habits long before the statisticians do. Our correspondent goes behind the till to see how savvy Irish shoppers really are

Supermarkets changed dramatically in the recession, but so did consumers

Retailers should be made to reveal their profit margins, says the MEP

Supermarket culture, with its “retailing tricks”, has had a phenomenal effect on how our lives, towns and cities, farms and food systems are organised

Running until Sunday, Bite at the RDS is the new Irish Times food and drink festival. We sent Anthea McTeirnan along for a taste of the action

Send us your queries now, and have your culinary conundrums answered by Catherine Fulvio and The Irish Times food and wine team this Friday

The culinary traditions of Greece, Turkey and Egypt have been swapped and shared throughout the ages, and it’s these that Keshk’s menu focuses on

Waterford Whispers’ Gerry McBride on his fishy folly

‘There are two things I’ll take from this week; I’ll never make a swiss roll again and don’t try to make fudge under time pressure’

Whilst the bakers learn to roll with the punches from their disastrous technical challenge they end on a sweet note with some great showstoppers

Barry FitzGerald’s culinary pedigree is impeccable, just like his new Dublin 8 restaurant

‘The ribs were so good they nearly outshone the Trip to Tipp’

Marie-Claire Digby rounds up this week's food news

A home-made version of the ultimate convenience food tastes so much nicer

Create a newspaper page to wrap our Killer Sandwiches and win a great prize

‘I have discovered over the years that when my body craves salt it can be solved in one fell swoop by eating a bag of Tayto’

Ray wing cannot be deboned easily, but it is a beautiful fish served on the bone

Where I Eat, Bavaria: I’ve discovered a wide range of delicious regional cuisine since moving here

‘I do my best not to eat it from fast food takeaway joints but sometimes I crave it pretty badly’

Heston Blumenthal’s flagship restaurant has had a revamp, and the master of culinary creativity is taking diners on a magical journey. Tim Magee was among the first to book a ticket

Eating quality red meat no more than three times a week is safe

There’s more to food than gourmet meals or comfort eating as it permeates our language, literature and daily lives

From Pot Noodles to 99s, chef Gary O’Hanlon on why he’s ‘a machine for the grub’

Italian chef Massimo Bottura, feeds European heads of state one day, Syrian refugees the next. He talks to Catherine Cleary about why two of the world’s most powerful men sat at one of his tables and how he keeps his grandmother in a jar behind his desk

Broadside: ‘I loved the taste of meat but I have always known that I couldn’t kill a creature myself and eat it, so I left the slaughter to others. Now, I can no longer do that’

‘Our challenge was to create a ‘picnic loaf’ for the judges. Yes, I had to Google it too’

Another testing week for contestants on TV3’s Great Irish Bake Off proves you’re only as good as your last bake

‘It’s easy to reason that coffee comes from a bean, and that beans are plants, so it’s basically salad’

The owner of Dunne & Crescenzi says she prefers to eat her guilty pleasure while alone

Forget your grouse, pheasant and duck breasts, Christmas is one tradition that shouldn’t be messed with. So bring on the child-sized turkey, mountain ofsprouts and a good dollop of indigestion, says Maia Dunphy