Best of Irish Traditional Cooking

by Biddy White Lennon

Biddy White Lennon brings out the real flavour of Ireland in this new cookbook series. One of Ireland's best-known food writers, she presents recipes from around the country featuring the finest and the favourites of traditional Irish cooking.

From starters to puddings, you will find a delicious selection of recipes using the best of Irish succulent salmon, creamy cheeses, nutty brown flour. Choose from Bantry Bay mussels, Dublin Coddle, Kerry apple cakes, traditional fruity barm brack -- the Hallowe'en favourite -- Guinness stew, Baileys cheesecake and of course the famous Irish Coffee.

The book also contains related anecdotes, around the recipes, on Irish folklore and legends. All the recipes include metric, imperial and US measurements.

Genres: Cookbooks

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 13, 2002

About the author

Biddy White Lennon is a noted cook and personality, familiar to many people as Maggie from The Riordans. She is a founder member and currently Chairwoman of the Irish Food Writers Guild. Biddy is the editor and food writer of Irish Home Diary and writes regularly for Food and Wine Magazine.

Her most recent book, Wild Food, is an exciting collaboration with Evan Doyle of the famous Strawberry Tree restaurant. 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.

Reviews

[Gregory Maher]

Simple, succinct recipes, with measurements translated to American audiences. I love the simple sketched illustrations and the brief background - as a lad many generations along from my Irish immigrant grandparents, it was a perfect entryway to the culture.

[Nuria Martí]

Great for knowing Irish cooking :) thanks a lot, Judith, tenemos pendiente festín Irish, you know...