EURO-free Zone!

Welcome to January's Megabytes, which we promise is a completely EURO-free zone. Instead, forget the fact that your credit card bill looks more than 20% heavier and feast on the most gruesome trifle ever concocted, disagree with our predictions for the year, listen to the wise words of some cutting-edge cooks, read our restaurant review, check out Stay Tuned with its ace Spanish foods, and start sending us some groovy food lovers logos to feature next month.

Picture taken from 'The Prawn Cocktail Years' by Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham (Macmillan)

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Against the Grain

The wonderful thing about the wonderful people who work in the food business is the way in which they view every new year as a new challenge. This sense of seeing their work as a constant provocation is what makes their work so special. We asked some of the brightest and buzziest talents working today in Irish food to reflect on the year past. Find out who they are and what they say

The Megabytes Predictions

Never mind the looming recession, and the government's idiotic analysis of tourist figures. The truth is that many of the best food people had a bumper year in 2001, and will have an even better year in 2002. Here's how we see things happening at Megabytes Central!

Logo

What makes a good logo, and what is the effect of a good logo? Find out

Letters Page

Dear John and Sally Quentin Gargan, who has a keen nose for the subterfuge of the genetic modification industry, has forwarded us this fascinating, but more than a bit scary, info on a new Irish website.

Restaurant Review

They wear their influences on the sleeves of their whites in Dish, and not only does their unselfconscious borrowing and assimilating from all over the globe show their maturity and inquisitiveness, it also shows their sense of fun. Find out more

Stay Tuned

The Bridgestone Food Lover's Guides Update - Darina Allen and the prestigious André Simon Awards and Rafael Alvarez's Carrick-on-Suir wine company, Approach Trade Ireland. Find out more.

Recipe of the Month

Peg Bracken's London Trifle

Wine of the Month

Kiwi Cuvée sounds like an artful joke, and the concept of New Zealand winemakers crafting a sauvignon blanc from vineyards in the Loire valley in France makes it sound even funnier. Find out more.