Darina Allen
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How to cook Christmas: Turkey and ham made easy
- Food & Drink
- December 14, 2020, 06:00
“Think of it like a big chicken.” Those words of wisdom, attributed to chef and restaurateur Neven Maguire, have calmed the nerves of many a Christmas(...)

Make the most of Stay and Spend scheme
- Sponsored
- December 9, 2020, 00:00
The new year is looking a lot brighter than the gloomy one we are about to unceremoniously kick out the back door with a vengeance. There are bright n(...)

‘I used to go to bed with cookbooks’- Lilly Higgins on her lifelong love of food
- Food & Drink
- November 19, 2020, 13:30
Looking back, it seems obvious that Lilly Higgins was destined for a career in the food business. “When I was studying for my Leaving Cert I used to g(...)

What’s cooking? The best online classes for all ages and experience
- Food & Drink
- November 14, 2020, 06:00
Any home cook worth their salt invariably has an aspiration to take a cooking class. The chance to sharpen your skills with the masters and being give(...)

Clodagh McKenna: ‘Me and Harry have a drink every day. I don’t care. It’s lockdown’
- Food & Drink
- November 6, 2020, 06:10
The Irish-born chef and writer talks about her life with Harry Herbert, plans for the future and her new book of quick, weeknight suppers If the(...)

Start them stirring, knife skills at four: how to teach kids to cook
- Food & Drink
- October 29, 2020, 06:00
The golden rule to getting children interested in cooking is patience – and lots of it. “It can be a slow process,” says cook Thomasina Miers. “I tal(...)

Rory O’Connell: ‘I didn’t get to know my sister Darina until I came to Ballymaloe’
- Food & Drink
- October 18, 2020, 06:00
If you have a famous sibling, chances are you’re in the shadows. Unless your surname is Kardashian where they all seem to strobe in the limelight, or (...)

Former asylum seekers share Cork’s Person of the Month Award
- Irish News
- October 5, 2020, 09:56
A Middle Eastern couple who have built a new life for themselves in Ireland after moving from the direct provision system to running their own restaur(...)

‘We’ve got a real chance to reimagine our cities’: 20 ways to improve urban life after lockdown
- Life & Style
- June 27, 2020, 06:00
When it emptied our cities, Covid-19 gave us a chance to push reset. It allowed people to really see the space, rather than the people and cars cro(...)

Darina Allen goes back to basics as Covid shuts cookery school
- Retail & Services
- May 15, 2020, 19:13
Celebrity chef Darina Allen has opened an online business and expanded a local food retail offering to make ends meet as Covid-19 cut short courses at(...)