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John Walsh charts her 30 years of influence on some of the world's greatest cooks from her farm in County Cork
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Google pays $70m a year to ensure that its staff restaurants offer a range of free food, while other tech firms are equally sold on fine dining for their employees
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Dishes include white chocolate and asparagus cream, sweet black olive purée and goats' cheese ice cream
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If it can be wedged between two slices of bread, then Helen Graves has tried it. The snack obsessive has made it her mission to find the world’s weirdest and most wonderful. Gillian Orr samples some of her favourites.
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