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The same impulse struck at The Pepper Pot, where   flecked goat’s cheese and tender Burren Smokehouse
            founder Marian Kilcone greeted us, after wiping her   smoked salmon, often lauded as the country’s best.
            flour-dusted hands                                                             Warm scones follow,
            on her black                                                                   along with home-
            kitchen apron. The                                                             made raspberry
            café run by this                                                               jam. These tea-time
            chef trained at                                                                classics are a recent
            the famed Bal-                                                                 discovery for me; I
            lymaloe Cookery                                                                try them whenever
            School is tucked                                                               they’re offered. Pep-
            on the mezzanine                                                               per Pot’s would be
            above shops in the                                                             perfect, smuggled
            elegant Georgian                                                               back on the cruise
            townhouse reim-                                                                ship to enjoy with
            agined as Powerscourt Centre.                     a Café al Baccio latte. No way, though; we devoured
             Our small table is soon crowded with plates of Irish   every crumb.
            soda bread, baked on site daily and topped with chive-


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