National Geographic Traveller Food

RÓISÍN MURPHY

My father once wrote a poem about my mother’s cooking.

One of the lines was ‘we caught a wild hare, and you cooked it with your skilful but tender hands’. He didn’t catch a wild hare at all, he was just making it up! But the most memorable meals were always when he’d find something. He’d meet a poacher in a pub and come home with some salmon

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