Irish Traditional Cooking: Over 300 Recipes from Ireland S Heritage Tapa dura - 2012

Darina Allen runs the world-renowned cookery school at Ballymaloe. Courses range from a weekend learning how to keep a few chickens in the garden, to the three-month diploma course which runs three times a year. She is Ireland's most famous TV cook, having presented nine series of her cooking programme ʿSimply Deliciousʽ on television around the world.

Darina is Ireland's best-known food ambassador and is the award-winning author of A Year at Ballymaloe Cookery School, Healthy Gluten-free Eating, Easy Entertaining, Ballymaloe Cookery Course and Forgotten Skills of Cooking.

She has won many awards, including one for outstanding contribution to the Irish culinary sector by Euro-Toques in 2007.

Darina founded the first farmers' markets in Ireland and is a tireless campaigner for local produce. She is a natural teacher, whose enthusiasm and energy for good food is quite contagious.