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The Darina Allen Column


Darina Allen
Author: Darina Allen
I’m sitting with my back to a stone wall on Inis Meáin – on Ireland’s western seaboard – watching islander Padraic McDonagh hand threshing rye in the time honoured way. He chooses a flat lime stone area and then he makes a little circle of sheaves to catch the seed.
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Insider View - On 'The Best'


Hilton Park - Clones County Monaghan Ireland
Author: Lucy Madden
A friend has presented me with a packet of recycled plastic clothes-pegs. Not a gift to set the pulses racing, you will agree, but one for which I am very grateful. These pegs, unlike their competitors that snap in the first breeze and gather on the floor of the yard, are capable of keeping a wet carpet on the washing line while the weather does its worst.
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Achill Island Turbot


Achill Island Turbot
Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them
Turbot is a flat fish with pure white flesh that is highly prized for its texture and flavour – a delicacy since Roman times, it is a favourite of that great seafood chef Rick Stein. A large left-eyed flatfish, wild turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) is mainly found in sandy shallow waters throughout the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea and the North Atlantic, where it lives quietly on the ocean floor.
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Carrots


Carrots
Author: In Season
A domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, an umbelliferous plant which is native to Europe and southwestern Asia, this everyday root vegetable is usually orange - although purple, red, white, and yellow varieties exist and are currently more widely grown, due to demand from chefs.
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Book Review The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein


The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein
Author: Cookbook Reviews
Annabel Langbein is one of New Zealand’s most popular food writers and it’s easy to see why. Her message is bang on trend – she’s ‘on a mission to get people into the kitchen with fun, no-stress recipes that make the most of what nature has to offer” - and her down-to-earth approach to cooking has made her a phenomenon.
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Just Ask Restaurant of the Month for June - Avoca Garden Cafe at Mount Usher Gardens


The Garden Cafe @ Avoca - Mount Usher Gardens Ashford County Wicklow Ireland
Author: Just Ask
Widely acknowledged among the great gardens of the world, Mount Usher Gardens are very easily accessible just half an hour from Dublin with the main entrance in the centre of Ashford village.
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New Season Irish Lamb


Neven Maguire - Lamb
Author: Georgina Campbell
In recent times, new season spring lamb has become traditional at Easter in Ireland, but it is a much better buy in summer when it has had more time to grow larger (making it more suitable for family meals) and to develop more flavour. Bord Bia recently launched a series of interactive video demonstrations featuring top chef Neven Maguire, and a also new range of tasty Irish lamb recipes...
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Rapeseed Oil


Rapeseed Fields
Author: Special Irish Foods & People Who Make Them
A new product which looks set to play an important role in Ireland’s agriculture and cuisine is RAPESEED OIL and, while the changes this crop brings to the landscape are not universally welcome, the product itself is proving to be a very acceptable alternative to imported olive oil.
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The Darina Allen Column


Darina Allen
Author: Darina Allen
Stevie Parle is an interesting young chef who is making waves on the London food scene - and he was one of the youngest students we ever had on our 12 Week course. Stevie was just 17 years old when he signed up for the January 2002 Certificate Course. He, like many young people, was fed up with ordinary school – he just wanted to cook.
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Insider View - On Festivals


Hilton Park - Clones County Monaghan Ireland
Author: Lucy Madden
Lucy Madden reflects on the life enhancing power of festivals – even when it rains. “We’re not coming to stay” said the woman at the front door. “But the parrot is.” So began the 2011 Flat Lake Arts and Literary Festival here in Co. Monaghan. What is it that makes festivals, events that expose one over a number of days to the vagaries of the weather, a monotonous diet and the stern gaze of Security, so utterly compelling?
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