Hold The Anchovies Please

When the tar-blackened door opened on the timber smoke house, the shimmering silver skins of the salmon hit the daylight and the smell of smoking beechwood filled the air, a delicious welcome indeed to Frank Hederman’s smoke and curing house in Cobh. I was pretty excited…

Kinsale is a pretty fishing town, just thirty minutes west of Cork.  Even in the winter months when the weather is miserable, it still has a certain amount of charm and there’s always some hostelry with a roaring fire on the go.  It’s not until the summer when this…