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Fri 11 Nov 2009Served with passion: Traveller women share a wild and delicious repertoire
MARGARET O’BRIEN remembers keenly the smell of griddle bread baked at night on the outside fire near her family’s caravan on the rural roads of west Limerick, 45 years ago.
Her mother, Bridget, would produce the main meal at about 6pm, and afterwards bake the bread. “They were harder times, but better,” she says.
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