Simply Delicious

Darina Allen is Ireland’s best-known food ambassador and runs the world-renowned cookery school at Ballymaloe, Ireland. She is the author of ‘Irish Traditional Cooking’, ‘A Year at Ballymaloe Cookery School’, ‘Healthy Gluten-free Eating’, ‘Easy Entertaining’, ‘Forgotten Skills of Cooking’ (winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2009), ‘A Simply Delcious Christmas’ ’30 Years at Ballymaloe’, ‘Grow, Cook, Nourish (winner of The World Gourmand Cookbook Award 2018) and most recently Simply Delicious, The Classic Collection (publishing date end of September 2018). She has won many other awards including for outstanding contribution to the Irish culinary sector by Euro-Toques in 2007, the UK Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 and the 2018 Guaranteed Irish Food Hero Award.