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What food did the real St Patrick eat? Less corned beef and cabbage, more oats and stinky cheese

By Regina Sexton, Food and culinary historian, University College Cork

Hagiographies (writing on the lives of saints) give us a glimpse of the food culture of early medieval Ireland, when Patrick lived.

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