Food & Drink

An accessible and streamlined cookery primer for anyone wanting to master basic cooking skills using 25 of the most popular staple ingredients, written by the grande dame of Irish food.

Explains 1175 recipes, 370 variations and more than 100 basic skills, from making pastry to the art of carving, from preserving lemons to making delicious home-made pasta, from culturing creamy yogurt to butterflying a leg of lamb.

Growing your own food is exciting but, when it comes to knowing how to make the most of your produce, it can be daunting.

The best 100 recipes from Darina Allen's iconic Simply Delicious books fully revised and updated with new photography. From soups and starters to her favourite desserts, Darina covers meat, poultry, fish and vegetable dishes that have stood the test of time over the nearly 30 years since the books were originally published.

Classic and contemporary one-dish recipes - from roasting tray dinners to casserole stews - taking in pots, pans and even the odd tagine

In this beautiful new 25th anniversary edition, you will find photography to accompany many of the dishes, classics just as you remember them, updates to a number of the dishes and the addition of many new recipes.

A modern manual - get ready for a masterclass in bread making from Ballymaloe.

New Edition. Winner - Gourmand World Cookbook Awards: Best World Gourmand Cookbook 2017. Growing your own food is exciting but, when it comes to knowing how to make the most of your produce, it can be daunting. In Grow, Cook, Nourish, bestselling author Darina Allen draws on more than 30 years of experience gardening at Ballymaloe to take you through an extensive list of vegetables, herbs and fruits.

In 2014, Myrtle Allen will celebrate her nintieth birthday and Ballymaloe House will celebrate fifty years open to the public. This new edition of The Ballymaloe Cookbook, first published in 1977, marks the occasion.

Whether it's classic cakes, tiered cakes or small cakes, free-from cakes or wedding and birthday cakes Rachel has the perfect, foolproof recipe.

Bestselling author and TV chef Rachel Allen presents the definitive baking guide.