Best of Irish Festive Cooking Biddy White Lennon

Name: Best of Irish Festive Cooking By Biddy White Lennon
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Best of Irish Festive Cooking by Biddy White Lennon

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Ever wondered what the perfect food is for Bloomsday, or Hallowe'en? How to make the most of the Galway Oyster Festival or Wexford Strawberry Festival? Wonder no more! This book has all the lore and recipes for a full Irish festive year.

Best of Irish Festive Cooking Summary

Best of Irish Festive Cooking by Biddy White Lennon

The Best of traditional Irish foods cooked with modern flair

The Irish calendar provides many days for feasting and traditional celebration: St Brigid's Day, which announces the spring; St Patrick's Day, Shrove Tuesday, Bealtaine (May), Bloomsday, Lughnasa (August), Hallowe'en, Women's Christmas (Nollaig na mBan). Then there are the newer festivals that celebrate the rich harvest of our seas and fields -- The Galway Oyster Festival, the Wexford Strawberry Festival. These sixty recipes offer a tempting selection of foods for all these occasions, as well as for christenings, weddings and wakes.

Details of customs, folklore and Irish regional food traditions provide a fascinating background to the recipes.

Best of Irish Festive Cooking Reviews

The latest in the excellent 'Best of Irish' series based on traditional Irish cooking. Well researched explanations of the origin and folklore surrounding many of these ancient feast days adds to the interest of the book. This book ends up with a selection of recipes for events such as weddings, christenings and waking the dead, so just about every eventuality is covered!

* The Irish Examiner *

About Biddy White Lennon

Biddy White Lennon was a noted cook and personality, familiar to many people as Maggie from The Riordans. She was a founder member and Chairwoman of the Irish Food Writers Guild as well as editor and food writer of Irish Home Diary and wrote regularly for Food and Wine Magazine. As a judge on The Great Irish Bake-Off, Biddy displayed her passion for great food that can be cooked by ordinary people in their own homes. Biddy died in 2017.

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Sku

GOR004657266

ISBN 13

9780862789305

ISBN 10

0862789303

Title

Best of Irish Festive Cooking by Biddy White Lennon

Author

Biddy White Lennon

Series

Best of Irish

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

O'Brien Press Ltd

Year published

20051021

Number of pages

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N/A

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