We’ve been in Bordeaux for a couple of days celebrating Jean Pierre Moullé’s significant birthday. Friends from all over the world arrived by train, boats and planes [...]
The Ballymaloe Cookery School operates throughout the year with everything from one day, two and half day and week courses as well as three, three month certificate courses every year. Students come from all over the world, this time there are 14 different nationalities, so our little village of Shanagarry becomes even more cosmopolitan. Some [...]
Chez Panisse is a legendary restaurant and café in Berkeley, California. For almost 40 years its simple menu of local, seasonal and organic food has been an inspiration to chefs and cooks, not just in America but across the world. The founder Alice Waters is a hero, not only to farmers and producers for the [...]
Stephanie Alexander visited us recently at the Cookery School and wrote up a little bit about how much she enjoyed her time in Ireland and the UK. ‘Stephanie’s Latest’ column published on the Kitchen Garden Foundation website: http://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/resources/resource-area/stephanies-latest/14/a-northern-hemisphere-change-of-scenery
What is it about barbeques that brings out latent culinary skills in even the most kitchen shy lads; perhaps it is the primeval thrill of playing with fire that generates a rush of excitement. As a nation despite the inclement weather we’ve taken to the barbeque with huge enthusiasm. Virtually every house has a barbie [...]
RecipesJames Ramsden’s Crisp Salad of Chicory, Pickled Radishes and Apple James Ramsden’s Lamb KebabsTo make the flatbreads James Ramsden’s Chocolate and Fennel BrowniesJames Ramsden’s Chocolate, Chilli and Cardamom TartPast students of the Ballymaloe Cookery School do a variety of things, some work as chefs or cooks in restaurants, gastro pubs, yachts, ski chalets, catering businesses [...]
The way to everyone’s heart is as ever through their tummy, it’s Fathers Day tomorrow so lets show our love and appreciation and celebrate with a slap up meal for our bestest Dad – [...]
I’ve got every single book that Elizabeth David ever wrote, in my library. She was unquestionably one of the most superb [...]
The craving, particularly among young people, to relearn almost forgotten skills continues to gather momentum. Butchery courses in London, New York and San Francisco all have waiting lists. The participants don’t necessarily want to [...]
This week-end we are going to have elderflower party to celebrate the profusion of elderflowers in the hedges. You’ll find them in city gardens, along railways embankments as well as down country lanes. [...]