What Makes Irish Food Special?

Cool, wet climates aren’t usually considered good for growing. In Ireland, however, the weather creates unparalleled strawberries, red and golden raspberries, tangy blackberries free for the taking along every country roadside, and fragrant wild blueberries, known as fraughans (FROCK-ens). Not to mention there are apples galore, from the delicately perfumed Cox’s orange pippins, typically served with nothing more than a fruit knife, to the lumpy, misshapen Bramleys, a cooking apple whose tart, meaty flesh, the true essence of apple, makes a Golden Delicious taste like papery mush.