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Spicebags Podcast

Launched on March 18, 2020 and lasting over four seasons Spicebags was the winner of two Irish Food Writing Awards in 2021 and 2023. Spice Bags podcast was produced in the Podcast Studios by Head Stuff in Dublin, Ireland. The podcast is co-hosted by food writers Mei Chin, Dee Laffan and me and centered on global food in an Irish context.

Named after everyone’s favourite Chinese-Irish drunk snack, Spice Bags is about Ireland’s relationship with food from the outside world.

It featured some of Ireland’s most interesting personalities from Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu to Michelin starred chef Ahmet Dede.

Spice Bags is a fortnightly podcast that is part of the Headstuff Podcast Network, Ireland’s largest podcast network.

Spice Bags podcast was the closing show on the Compass Taste Theatre stage at Taste of Dublin 2021 for their first-ever live episode and was honoured to present a panel on ‘Social Gastronomy’ at Food on the Edge 2021. The podcast has collaborated with Dublin Lunar New Year, Guinness Storehouse, Celtic Ross Hotel, Moutai and did a panel on international food shopping at Taste of Dublin 2022 with chef Kwangi Chan and TV chef Jeeny Maltese. It also created cross over podcast episodes with Words to that Effect and What am Politics?

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Food and Wines from Spain

Collaborations with the Commercial Office of the Embassy in Spain in Dublin in many projects and events including CATEX, Spanish Wine and Food Week, All-Ireland Tapas Competition, Instituto Cervantes lectures and tastings, Spanish Food Fair 2018, Spanish cooking classes at Triggerfish cookshop, Rias Baixas wine region and press events. Also I have collaborated with the New York office in the promotion of Iberico products in the Chicago Area.

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Lectures Spain Work

New Cervantes Food Culture Workshops

You can find all the information about my upcoming workshops here.

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Instituto Cervantes

I have lectured on Spanish cuisine at the Instituto Cervantes (Chicago & Dublin) on a number of topics focused on Spanish food history (olive oil, canned fish products, cheeses, charcuterie and Spanish food in the XXIst century.). The presentations included a lecture, cooking demo and recipes. The olive oil lecture in Chicago featured Chicago chef Ryan Poli and OMED olive oil producer Juan de Dios Garcia Casas as our guests. Here is the link. In Chicago, the presentations were sponsored by Culinary Collective and JDY Gourmet.

Since 2017 I have  presented a series of lectures about Spanish food in the XXIst century in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish Commercial Office of Dublin. In 2019 I was a lecturer in the Hispanic Gastronomy series with the Embassy of Peru, the Embassy of Mexico and Food and Wines from Spain.

In January and February 2021 I will be hosting a series of lectures on Spanish Gastronomy in Art, Movies and TV, Popular Sayings and TV ads. Here is the link.

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Triggerfish Cookshop

I teach regular Spanish, Latin American & Moroccan among other classes at Triggerfish Cookshop in Blackrock, Dublin.

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