Summary
'Our first lady of food.' The Irish Independent
'It's time to clear the kitchen shelves of all those glossy cookbooks you never open and make way for the Ballymaloe Cookery Course - it's the only one you'll need from now on.' The English Home
Ballymaloe is one of the world's best cookery schools and Darina Allen, its co-founder and main teacher, is in a league of her own. Every student who has gone through her school has begged her to write down her recipes and thoughts, tips and shortcuts, and here they are in this definitive teaching book, which has everything to inform and inspire you to become adventurous in the kitchen. Ballymaloe Cookery Course explains 1,175 recipes, 370 variations and more than 100 basic skills, from making pastry to the art of carving, from preserving lemons to making delicious home-made pasta, from culturing creamy yogurt to butterflying a leg of lamb: the simple instructions given by one of the world's great cookery teachers will inspire you to prepare and enjoy the art of fresh produce and fine food.
Darina Allen is often called the "The Julia Child of Ireland." She runs the world-renowned cooking school at Ballymaloe in County Cork, Ireland. She founded this school with her husband in 1983 and runs the highly regarded three-month diploma course as well as various other short courses at the school. Her Forgotten Skills series, upon which her book, Forgotten Skills of Cooking, was based is included in the cooking school program. The book has been shortlisted for the 2009 Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards. She is Ireland's most famous television cook and her cooking program, "Simply Delicious," is seen on TV around the world.
In 2005 she was awarded the IACP's Cooking Teacher of the Year Award.
(Bowker Author Biography)
