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Traditional food for an Irish Halloween
In times past and just as much today, an Irish Halloween is a harvest festival celebrated with a feast for the family. With the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain falling on the last day of October and start of November, the harvest was in, food was plentiful and a huge feast of seasonal fare played […]
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A spooky Halloween supper
Halloween isn’t your typical celebration. And, Halloween food isn’t exactly ‘normal’ either. Fact: we owe Halloween to Ireland. This is the autumn festival when, as my ancestors believed, the ghosts of the dead returned to the land of the living. Spooky. Really, though, that’s why we like Halloween. It’s not ‘normal’. It’s scary, it’s unpredictable […]