Aisling Larkin

Aisling Larkin is here to talk about the taste of summer, the flavours of summer and we're all here for it, Aisling.

Oh yeah, summer has arrived, didn't it?

You kind of spend so many weeks going, will we get a summer?

Is summer here?

And it is here and it feels glorious.

It feels warm and it feels exciting and there's a little bit of adventure and

liveliness in the air.

The French have a beautiful word.

It's called viv or vif and it means this kind of liveliness, this energised energy that's in the air and I think that's what summer brings and then you're trying to capture that and bring it into food and how do you translate that into food?

And it changes what you want to eat, doesn't it?

Oh my goodness, so much.

Like when the weather is so nice, everybody will say, God, I wasn't even hungry.

Oh, we'll just have something quick.

And this is where the... You just want to be outside.

You don't want to be in the kitchen cooking.

None of us do.

So from that perspective, but also your appetite goes down because your body is really busy thermoregulating.

And for the likes of us in Ireland who get three or four days, like we're grand.

But for people who live in...

Big heat all summer long.