Commonplace

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Commonplace connects you to contemporary and historical Irish food culture with experiences of wild food, backyard horticulture, supply chains and medieval culinary research. And some very definite opinions.

About Drew Shiel

Food Historian, Cook, Occasional Doom-monger. He/him.

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