Some Great Irish Cookbooks

• The Avoca Café CookbookSuperb food from the inspirational Avoca team.

• The Ballymaloe Cookbook by Myrtle Allen. An ageless classic, full of profound wisdom.

• The Café Paradiso Cookbook by Denis Cotter. Quite simply the finest cookery book ever written by a practising chef. A classic.

• The Cork Cookbook Now quite rare, but worth hunting down for this great collection of recipes from County Cork’s finest cooks.

• The Drimcong Food Affair by Gerard Galvin. Perhaps the wisest book ever written on the practice of being a restaurateur.

• Hot Food by Paul & Jeanne Rankin. A forgotten title from Belfast’s dynamic couple, and unquestionably their masterpiece.

• Irish Traditional Cooking by Darina Allen. Scores of marvellously rustic and agrestic recipes.

• Land of Milk and Honey by Brid Mahon. Pioneering study of Irish culinary history.

• A Little History of Irish Food by Regina Sexton. Engaging writing and lively wit from Cork’s food-loving scholar.

• Pizza Defined by Bernadette O’Shea. The text of the brilliance of Ireland’s most iconoclastic cook.

• The Potato Year by Lucy Madden. 365 potato recipes described with great felicity.

• You Say Potato by Elgy Gillespie. The most rollicking recipe book ever on Irish food.