Definition: A plant-eating animal. Context: Most mammals are herbivores; that is, they eat only plants. Definition: Any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands and have skin usually more or less covered with hair.
Youâll find that most traditional recipes contains the basics of vegetables, meat, or fish. Youâll find that Irelandâs most famous food dish, the traditional Irish stew, is actually really easy to make and makes the perfect meal for a family.With a good feed of spuds the kids just love it.ouâll find that most traditional recipes contains the basics of vegetables, meat, or fish. Youâll find that Irelandâs most famous food dish, the traditional Irish stew, is actually really easy to make and makes the perfect meal for a family. With a good feed of spuds the kids just love it.
Which raises the question: What was Irish food like for the 1500 years between Patrick and potatoes? The short answer is: milky. Every account of what Irish people ate, from the pre-Christian Celts up through the 16th-century anti-British freedom fighters, revolves around dairy. The island's green pastures gave rise to a culture that was fiercely proud of its cows (one of the main genres of Ancient Irish epics is entirely about violent cattle rustling), and a cuisine that revolved around banbidh, or white foods.