Top ten Irish recipes for St. Patrick’s Day - corned beef and cabbage, stew and shepherds pie

Shephards pie is British btw. What are 'irish potatoes'? Apparently Idaho folks love their spuds, as do the rest of America - in some form. Potatoes come from South America - where they eat tons! Apart from the famine times, when many impoverished country people (the tenants of rich British landlords) could afford nothing much else in their diet - the Irish eat a wide and varied diet. Irish food is very highly regarded now. Many hotels/restaurents have started to cater in the last few years to Americans who want their 'boxty' or 'colcannon' or 'irish stew' etc. However, many of these dishes come from Northern Ireland, or Britain, and have migrated! Few Americans seem to realise that spud eating, tea drinking, beer drinking etc etc etc. are very English preoccupations!

While serving in the Marine Corps and stationed stateside, Irish potatoes were on the menu about once or twice a week, but I never cared very much for them. (By the way, removing the skins from any tubers was always called "peelind spuds").

oldperfessor how does a food article turn into bash America. There was no bacon when they first came over so they adapted and used what was available. Today while buying my corned beef a lady was on her phone asking her husband what type of potatoes she then asked me. She said she was Italian and her husband was Norweigian and wanted to make authentic corned beef and cabbage and I said she would have to get bacon and the history of how corned beef came about. So instead of bashing America lets rejoice on how such a small country had such a great impact on the world that people want to celebrate St Patrick and the Irish by eating food they think is Irish

oldperfessor how does a food article turn into bash America. There was no bacon when they first came over so they adapted and used what was available. Today while buying my corned beef a lady was on her phone asking her husband what type of potatoes she then asked me. She said she was Italian and her husband was Norweigian and wanted to make authentic corned beef and cabbage and I said she would have to get bacon and the history of how corned beef came about. So instead of bashing America lets rejoice on how such a small country had such a great impact on the world that people want to celebrate St Patrick and the Irish by eating food they think is Irish

Shepherd's Pie,an Irish dish? When did that happen? We Irish have a lot to be proud of, but cooking? I don't think so! Best quality food in the world-until it reaches the kitchen!

Shepherd's Pie is a traditional English dish made either from beef or lamb. The Irish have adopted it in recent years. I don't know what a shepard is, Elllen. Bernie, what does "Low and behold" mean? Go back to school.

ah we never had corned beef and cabbage when I was akid Ham & cabbage and a turnip in it sometimes

Shepard's pie calls for lamb,not beef. You don't see shepards herding cattle do you?

Oh, and I forgot...."low and behold", the comment on #1???? Seriously, I could use the job and, it's Lo, and behold.

I'm nearly 70 and retired and could use the extra money, so can I have Bernie's job, or at least be Bernie's editor? What the hell kind of journalist cannot punctuate or string together a properly parsed sentence?

Jewish butchers wouldn't have bacon. The sentence is backward. Corned beef was substituted for bacon. You have it the wrong way round

Another vote for lamb stew. Will make it one more time before winter is out.

Lamb's stew should be on this. The American adaptation was to serve it over corn bread, often for breakfast. Delicious. All the many people from Ireland that I have known use ham instead of corned beef or bacon and simply called it a boiled meal. I miss the wide varieties of soda bread that you could once buy or get served freshly baked at relatives' and neighbors' homes.

So where's the lamb stew, then...?

The true traditional Irish dish is boiling bacon, but Americans need to be shielded from this information because they're too wimpy to read about it - much less eat it.