The authors combine their knowledge, skills and enthusiasm to explore the culinary delights of Ireland. The book incorporates some of the best of Irish produce and the Rankins' cookery ideas, as they travel the length and breadth of Ireland to find fresh and traditional food from the sea and the lough, the field and the orchard, the cheesemaker and the smokery, and turn it into a cuisine for the 1990s. Their dishes range from baked goat's cheese with herb foccacia and marinated vegetables from County Down, to smoked haddock and creamed lentils from the tiny hamlet of Annalong.