Wicklow, Ireland /prbuzz/ 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."

In response to the increased demand for Irish food content in early March, from the beginning of the month until Saint Patrick’s Day, EuropeanCuisines.com is featuring on its front page a unique or historic Irish recipe that might otherwise be overlooked in the inevitable rush for the corned beef. Recipes spotlighted since March 1st have included the famous potato dish Colcannon: four styles of Irish Stew: traditional Irish sweets like Cranachan and Gur Cake: and Beef Pie with Guinness, sometimes called "De Valera Pie" after the former prime minister and president of Ireland. Visitors will also find gateway links to the site’s two main Irish recipe collections, and the lowdown on such subjects as the true story of the invention of Irish Coffee.

EuropeanCuisines.com began life in 1995 as a recipe collection at Duane’s first personal website, and was spun off as an independent site in 2003. Since then it has grown to feature recipes and cuisines from all over Europe, specializing in hard-to-find recipes from tiny countries like Monaco and Liechtenstein, as well as widely known dishes from the cuisines of all major European countries. Since Duane, a native New Yorker, has lived in Ireland for twenty years, the website puts special emphasis on its Irish content. It hosts one of the best-known online guides to soda bread, based on recipes and techniques passed on to Duane by the Belfast-based mother of her Irish husband, fantasy novelist and screenwriter Peter Morwood. EuropeanCuisines.com’s soda bread pages feature a step by step, in-depth "how to make it" guide, illustrating the main varieties of soda bread as the Irish really make it and eat it, supported by comprehensive video soda bread tutorials.

The relaunched version of EuropeanCuisines, built on the flexible and powerful Drupal content-management system, makes it easier than ever for users to search out that hard-to-find European recipe they’re seeking and post comments and cooking advice in the food forums. "Our new structure makes it easy for our users to share cooking tips," Duane says, "or track down hard-to-locate information about the cuisines and food cultures of Europe. While we have lots of advice to offer, our readers have even more – and now they can share their knowledge and passion for European food with each other twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week."

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Diane Duane
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