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A Blooming Brilliant Line Up Has Been Announced for this Year’s Bloom Festival

Bord Bia’s Bloom Festival returns for its 12th year in the Phoenix Park Dublin from 31st May – 4th June. The exciting five day event will see the best of Ireland’s horticulture and food industry on display. There will twenty spectacular show gardens, food vendors, live music, interactive demos and much more. There will be over 200 retail exhibitors, where eager green …

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Bord Gais Cookbook of the Year 2

Top of the Tasty Titles – This Book Just Won Cookbook of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2017

The Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards is Ireland’s biggest celebration of Irish books and authors. Last night saw the twelfth edition of the annual awards which celebrated the best fiction and non-fiction writers in Ireland, however the category we were most hungry to see who came on on top was that of Cookbook of …

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Chicken Pillard Recipe

Chicken Paillard Recipe with Roasted Grapes and Almonds by Rory O’Connell

This Chicken Paillard Recipe is by Chef Rory O’Connell from Cook Well Eat Well. The technique of butterflying a chicken breast to create a paillard is really simple and results in twice the surface area on the chicken for lots of extra colour and flavour. Cooking grapes to serve with savoury food may seem like …

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Roasted Cauliflower Recipe

Roasted Cauliflower Recipe with Red Onion, Cumin and Muhammara by Rory O’Connell

The preparation for this dish can be done several hours in advance, though I prefer not to cook it until closer to the time of serving. The vegetable is good served straight from the oven or at room temperature. The cauliflower in this recipe can be replaced with the exotic-looking green cauliflower called Romanesco. The …

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Coconut Rice Pudding Recipe

Coconut Rice Pudding Recipe with Sour Cherry and Orange Compote by Rory O’Connell

This Coconut Rice Pudding Recipe is is by Chef Rory O’Connell from Cook Well Eat Well. I love this combination of flavours, which elevates the humble rice pudding to a higher plane. The compote is best cooked well in advance to allow the cherries to swell and soften and the juices to become syrupy and …

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Bloom

Blooming Brilliant – Bloom Festival Returns To Dublin on June 1st with New Diverse Themes

Ireland’s premier gardening festival Bloom returns for its 11th edition this June Bank Holiday Weekend, bringing five full days of flowers, food and family fun to the Phoenix Park from June 1st – 5th This year the diverse themes at the show gardens include the global fall-out from the rise of “fake news”, the need for …

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Darina Allen. photo by Daniel Callen

The Grande Dame of Irish Food – Darina Allen on Shaking Things Up at LitFest and Growing an Organic Food Nation

“Hello Ballymaloe Cookery School, Darina speaking. Thanks for telephoning,” Darina Allen reels off. Dynamic, efficient and to the point, the characteristics of this powerhouse in the Irish food industry can be felt even in the way she answers the phone. Based at the cookery school on a day-to-day basis, despite on the cusp of her …

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Caitriona_Rogerson&Dee_Laffan Erica Bracken & Jules Mahon launch of LitFest 17 at O'Connell's Restaurant, Photo: Ailbhe O'Donnell

Social Gallery: Darina Allen and Rory O’Connell Give a Flavour of LitFest 17 at Festival Launch

LitFest 2017 launched this week with festival organisers Darina Allen and Rory O’Connell previewing this year’s programme to a full house at O’Connell’s Restaurant, Donnybrook. Brother and Sister, Darina and Rory of Ballymaloe Cookery School welcomed an audience of culinary fans, chefs, food and drinks writers, policy makers, media and all-round lovers of food to celebrate …

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Celebrity Chef Rory O’Connell Calls on Ireland to ‘BBQ to Beat Cancer’

Celebrity chef Rory O’Connell has joined forced with the Marie Keating Foundation to turn up the heat on cancer this summer. They have just launched a new campaign, BBQ to Beat Cancer which encourages people across Ireland to become a BBQ Hero by hosting a fundraiser in aid of men’s cancer programmes and services. On …

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Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Drink 2016

Where Literature met Laughter – The Best of The Kerrygold Ballymaloe LitFest 2016

Going for a walk along the quiet country roads of East Cork with two of the most celebrated and innovative chefs in San Francisco is not usually how I spend my Sunday mornings, but this was no ordinary Sunday, this was day three of Ballymaloe LitFest – which for four years has attracted the rockstars …

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Kerrygold Ballymaloe Litfest 2016 Launches in Drury Buildings

The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine a.k.a. Litfest got underway last week with a star studded launch in Dublin’s Creative Quarter. The Drury Buildings was the venue for the launch of the festival which is taking place May 20th-22nd and was created by culinary duo Darina Allen and Rory O’Connell. Along with Jeanne …

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Ballymaloe Litfest Launch

Kerrygold Ballymaloe LitFest Holds its Inaugural UK Launch

The Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine held it’s inaugural UK launch last night when this year’s programme was previewed to a full house at the Members’ Club at Quo Vadis in Soho. Co-Directors of the Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine, sister and brother team Darina Allen and Rory O’Connell …

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