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Meal Box Review: Thoughtful, hot, ready-to-eat dishes This fancy restaurant food arrives ready to eat, so be sure to have your table set about 23 hours ago   I’m not sure I’ve ever had pickled elderberries. Which seems strange, because little has escaped the fermented, pickled and cured charge of young chefs intent on squirrelling away hedgerow morsels to stash in look-at-me Kilner jars. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve never had pickled elderberries used in a way where they literally pin...

Drink outside the box Boxofwine.ie is an online wine subscription service that delivers three bottles of wine, curated to the buyer’s taste preferences, for €49 a month. Complete a brief questionnaire on the website and then an algorithm decides on the contents of the first box, after which feedback on the wines is taken into consideration in selecting the contents of subsequent monthly deliveries. The boxes also include tasting notes, information on the vineyards, and food pairing su...

  The last family holiday we took abroad was in Italy, in summer 2019, which as we all know, feels like a century ago. After landing in Naples, battling our way through the streets to find our Airbnb, we were just about in time to make lunch, so bailed across the street to the nearest trattoria, which of course, served pizza. Yes, I know, pizza in Naples, its spiritual home. It was near impossible to order anything else for the rest of the time we were there. It was that good. Unlike the Roman...