Decades later, with the peace process entrenched and the prison now a tourist attraction, Hodgins, a former hunger striker, and O'Rawe, the IRA prisoners' press officer during the 1981 death fast, have returned to Crumlin Road to sample the gourmet food on offer in the jail's newly opened restaurant, Cuffs.
Although a meal in the evening may run to €40, at lunch you can sample Chiara's gourmet cooking for only €10 in a set menu that features tempting dishes like pork roasted with beer and mustard, or cold pea soup with sliced fish fillets, borage and a granita of the tropical urucum fruit.
Some sushi eaters said they were startled by the results of the lab tests, which were conducted for The New York Times and showed that tuna samples from the Gourmet Garage and four restaurants had unusually high levels of mercury — above one part per million.
Today, 500startups company Love With Food is launching its subscription model, which offers a monthly box to users with tasty, gourmet samples of food.
Similarly, our gourmet dinner (sample menu: fire-roasted corn soup, aloo gobi with yellow dhal, rice and yoghurt, followed by carrot halwa) would be so much more memorable accompanied by a glass or two of chilled white wine, no?
Of four pizzas sampled, garden variety and gourmet included, the simple margherita was best; in a twist on the classic, pesto rather than fresh basil was used, and the mozzarella was laid out in slices, like a mosaic.
Luckily founder Aihui Ong chased me into the bathroom to explain to me how exactly they differ; For every box of bite-sized gourmet food samples you receive, LoveWithFood donates a meal to a homeless shelter.
Visitors dribble back from the inland tours in time to stroll around Old Town to sample Greek delicacies in everything from gourmet restaurants to the Rhodian versions of McDonald's and Pizza Hut.
They had lunch in the gourmet cafeteria, where Mr. Mello sampled a bit of everything, and visited the company store.
