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| | Irish Echo Online - Arts |
 | | We ate simple foods like Irish stew, fish 'n' chips, and sandwiches made with thick slabs of ham and slices of Cheddar cheese, and we still came home raving about all things Irish. |
 | | Finally, the days of the bad jokes about Irish food are over, and the inert image of Irish cooking -- its legacy of famine, emigration, wars, and the Troubles -- is being eclipsed by a more modern, inspired, and cosmopolitan approach. |
 | | Note: Like Irish whiskey, which is spelled with an "e" to differentiate it from Scotch whisky, Bunratty Meade is spelled with an "e" to designate it as a specific brand of mead. |
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