Food
Food is almost the best part of a Wedding Day. Wedding menus should try to please every guest's taste, without driving caterers crazy. From toasts to cakes, from veggies to vegans, suiting everybody can be a tricky obstacle.
"How many floors the wedding cake has?" seems to be a popular question among grooms. For the boys' information, when referred to wedding cakes, the floors are called "tiers". And how many tiers are needed is usually related to how many guests the couple has invited.
Rick Stein travelled throughout the UK and Ireland in search of food producers who strived for perfection and who card more about the quality of their products than about making a profit.
For Artisan Chocolatier, Ferdinand Vandaele, there is no question. Chocolate is definitely an aphrodisiac. He is joined in this opinion by his native countrymen of Belgium where to be an Artisan Chocolatier is a very fine calling indeed.
Women as they get older start to discover some of the joys of being a woman that men cannot appreciate, I am being very sarcastic because one of these so called joys is a body that is on a rollercoaster of hormones.
Ferringno's enthusiasm for cooking is obvious along with her trademark breathless delivery. Enthused by all things Italian, she learnt to cook at her grandmother's knee.
Jane McClenaghan of Vital Nutrition gives some basic tips on how to eat healthily - on the run. Her advice covers children to OAPs but the basic premise is that to look good you have to eat good and she provides quick and easy solutions.
While obesity is a major health issue in Ireland. Health and Living editor, Rosemarie Meleady takes a lighter approach to the issue of weight loss. The question is 'Are we expecting too much of ourselves?'
After eight successful years of business the Old Bridge Catering Company has grown from being the smallest in the south east to the biggest.