Paddy

Please enjoy St. Patrick's Day responsibly!

Don't do stuff the native Irish wouldn't, like:

• Dye beer green (even if it is crap beer and good for nothing else)
• Exclude fellow Irish people from parades because of their sexual orientation (or, for that matter, their religious or cultural ones. Hey, we let all you guys be Irish today. Extend the same courtesy to your neighbors. We do.)
• Get all political on each other (today)

The Saint wouldn't like it.

Please try doing some things that lots of the native Irish are doing this weekend, such as...

Wicklow, Ireland, March 13, 2007 -- Irish-based international recipe website EuropeanCuisines.com this week celebrates its official relaunch with an Irish recipe festival, featuring a new genuine Irish recipe every day until Saint Patrick’s Day, March 17th.

"This is our busiest time of year for North American visitors," said Diane Duane, site founder and manager. "Every March our website has an influx of people looking for really Irish recipes to help them celebrate St. Paddy’s Day. Many want information about how to make Irish soda bread, so we've tailored part of our website especially for them. Others want info about the history of corned beef and cabbage – which a lot of people are surprised to discover is an Irish-American development, not native Irish at all. But we have lots of other Irish recipes that people who live here in Ireland really do eat this time of year – both traditional recipes for dishes like champ or boiled bacon and cabbage, and recipes from the modern, evolving Irish cuisine."

-- and so it's time for us to promote two of our readers' favorite articles to the front page: What do Irish people eat? and Why we have no recipes for corned beef and cabbage.