While writing her debut cookbook, the broadcaster suffered the tragic loss of her son, Jerome. Here, she talks about how community has helped her through her grief, the importance of keeping meals practical not performative, and running the festival telling Waterford’s food story
Chef Eunice Power at home in Dungarvan, Co Waterford. Photo: Patrick Browne
“Nothing helps,” Eunice Power says, quietly. “Keeping busy distracts me a bit. But nothing helps.”
It is just after 9am, and she appears on screen looking ready and relaxed: glasses on, a mug of tea in hand, smiling with the easy affability of someone already halfway into the day. There is no attempt to soften what she’s saying. It’s a sentence she seems to have arrived at through heartbreaking experience.