These Irish Halloween recipes are centuries old, but are still wholesome and delicious for all your spooky costumed party monsters! Hosting a Halloween party? You'll have to get some real food into ...

Ireland has some spooktacular Halloween traditions and one of our favorites has always been the anticipation of who will get the ring in the traditional Barmbrack bread. Barmbrack is a fruit-filled ...

Many of my Irish friends grew up carving turnips to ward off evil spirits at Halloween because pumpkins were not readily available in Ireland until recently. While they didn’t have pumpkins, they did ...

You may know about the plastic baby Jesus in the Mardi Gras king cake, but did you know that there’s an ancient history behind hiding symbolic trinkets in baked goods? Special-occasion breads (think ...

When the boss gently hints that you should do something, it’s prudent to pay attention. Fortunately, the gentle hint I recently received was regarding sharing a recipe for Irish food, so I’m all in. I ...

It is time for Barmbrack to grace bread bins and cupboards across the country yet again, and like Halloween itself, the cake has roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain. The fortune-telling ...

Barmbrack is a traditional Irish sweetened bread not dissimilar to the Welsh bara brith. In Gaelic it’s known as báirín breac, or ‘speckled loaf’, due to the way the dough is dotted with raisins. When ...

A zombie enjoys a bite of pan de muertos at a Day of the Dead celebration in Atlanta, Georgia. ERIK S. LESSER/epa/Corbis The history of Halloween can be traced back to Samhain, an old Gaelic festival ...