‘Is it wrong to think of food as medicine?’

The unsustainable burden of diet-related healthcare should prompt medical action

How to grow herbs and keep them happy

Most culinary herbs can be grown in pots or tubs while plenty will stay compact enough to grow very happily in a window-box

Wine: The joy of going au natural

Delicious, brimming with life and perfect with food, once you taste a really good natural wine, there is no going back

January tips for eating well for less: don't buy salad bags

Daunted by that pile of healthy food you bought last weekend? Here are nine ways to use it up

How to do Ballymaloe Litfest for €5 a day

Plan your visit to the food and drink festival carefully and you could be part of the action and meet your literary hero for (almost) zero

Ballymaloe Litfest: food for the soul added to the menu

This year’s food and drink extravaganza in Co Cork will be looking at the bigger picture

Don’t quit the sweet things, just cut down

The Lazy Person’s Guide to Fitness has lessons to control your cravings

Check In: Festival in Ballymaloe, on the buses, cycling in Clare and lots more

Travel news, offers and information from home and abroad

How to eat fat and lose weight at the same time

In the third of our series on easy ways to get healthy, we look at why you should not fear fat

Food File: The weekly food news round-up

Food festivals, family fun at Airfield and deliciously priced red pesto for Galmere

It’s meet-the-author time at Ballymaloe

This year’s Litfest promises lots of authors and chefs – and you can taste their food and take home their recipes

Three days of thought for food at Ballymaloe

Organisers estimate crowds were up marginally on last year’s 8,000 visitors

Kerrygold helps Ballymaloe LitFest spread the word