Contributing Editors

This year the Bridgestone Guides are lucky enough to be joined by new two new Contributing Editors, Elizabeth Field, who writes our Restaurant Review, and Orla Broderick.

Orla Broderick is a freelance food writer who is based in Dublin, but works mainly out of England. Orla worked as a writer for "BBC Good Food" magazine for five years before deciding to specialise in creating recipes and preparing food for the television.

She has worked on numerous books and productions, including work with Ainsley Harriott, Nick Nairn and Gary Rhodes.

She has just finished producing "10 of the Best", a forty part series on Irish chefs that is due to be transmitted early next year on RTE.

In addition to this she has written several cookbooks including two Gourmet Kitchen books for Apple Tree Press, Meals in Minutes for the BBC as well as two editions of Can't Cook, Won't Cook.

Her most recent publication was 100 Great Soups, a follow up to her 100 Great Snacks and Appetisers (Weidenfeld and Nicolson).

Elizabeth Field is a New Yorker who originally earned a degree in Fine Art before becoming a food writer 20 years ago.

She has free-lanced about food, wine, restaurants, travel, business and the arts for The New York Times, Boston Globe, Gourmet magazine, Saveur magazine, Travel & Leisure, Bride's and Organic Gardening.

For the last year Elizabeth has been free-lancing for The Irish Times. She was a staff writer, focussing on food and features, for 11 years for The Berkshire Eagle, a daily newspaper in Pittsfield, Mass. Elizabeth studied food history at Radcliffe and is a regular attender/presenter at the Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery.

She now lives in Dublin with her husband, 9-year-old daughter, and cat Sooty.

Photography: Mike O'Toole

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