An ode to toast, a quintessential part of Irish culinary culture

One of my favourite memories is from when I used to stay with my nana, Róise, as a little girl and she would make toast by piercing a slice of white batch bread with a long fork and holding it to the open fire to scorch it on one side, leaving the other side soft. She’d spread on Dairygold and some thick cut marmalade. Bless her, it was never spread very evenly but it was...