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"Visitors to Ireland go home with glowing accounts of Irish baking," writes Ruth Isabel Ross.

In her delightfully eclectic work, The Little Irish Baking Book, Ross brings the warmth of an Irish hearth to your home. this collection of recipes for the best yeast breads, pies both savory and sweet, puddings, cakes, and cookies will be a treasure trove of traditional family favorites for years to come.
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Containing over 250 recipes and 50 full-color photos displaying finished dishes and the countryside in which they remain so popular, this wide-ranging guide to Irish cooking doubles as a pictorial tribute to the Emerald Isle. Beginning appropriately with the classic Irish breakfast, it then proceeds to other highlights of Irish cooking, including specialties such as boxty, champ, colcannon, Guinness stew, and Skibbereen eagles. It also goes beyond the traditional, including recipes that bring an Irish touch to a wealth of fish, meat, poultry, and vegetable dishes popular throughout the world. Also included are valuable suggestions for flavorful salads, sauces, and stocks, as well as dessert recipes for Poitin Cake, Gaelige ice cream, and Irish flan. ... Read more

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Good Irish Food
Irish cooking has its own distinct style: basic ingredients put together with native touches. This book does a nice job of presenting traditional Irish recipes. It isn't a huge book with page after page of creative ways of presenting Irish food, but it does what it does well. For an in-depth study of Irish cooking you'll want to go elsewhere, but this is a nice place to start, with good, sound recipes that work well, given in an easy-to-understand way. ... Read more

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With more than 100 mouth-watering traditional Irish recipes, this superb cookbook includes how to make Irish Fry, Soda Bread, Irish Stew, Spiced Beef and Cabbage, Dublin Coddle (an Irish specialty made with bacon, sausage, onion, and potatoes), Concannon (a Halloween dish), Elderflower Fritters, Irish Coffee Pudding, and more. Large format and illustrated throughout with four-color photographs. ... Read more

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good food
when you can find all of the ingredients.many are hard to find. ... Read more

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During childhood visits to her Aunt Adele in southern Ireland, Fred Astaire's daughter Ava fell in love with all things Irish. ... Read more

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Cooking and Entertaining with Ava Astaire McKenzie
Beautiful pictures, wonderful recipes, and a nice note or two with picture of Ava's famous Father.You can see that a lot of time and effort went into this book. ... Read more

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The recipes offered use ingredients most readily available at particular times of the year. It is also a record of the landscapes of Ireland, especially the wild west coast. Other books by Nuala Cullen Irish Potato Recipes Irish Soups & Breads More tasty recipes from Ireland ". ... Read more

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Ireland Culinery & in scene(s)
A book that captures the imagination of two specialists in their fields, one The Cook and the other the Photographer,of course the book would not have been possible if it were not for the patience and expert Fleur Robertson the Editor in Chief, each receipe and image captures the imagination, whether one wishes to cook or just browse the images, it has a two fold job ... Read more

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A selection of recipes to delight both the beginner and the accomplished cook. A great find for anyone who wishes to entertain with confidence or for the busy professional who wants an alternative to flavourless meals. Using local ingredients with a dash of ingenuity to counteract repetition in everyday meals, AnnÆs recipes are health-conscious without sacrificing taste. As well as recipes for traditional brown bread and scones, there are mouth-watering dishes like Cashel Blue Potato Bake, Salmon Florentine, Helvic Head Seafood Gumbo and Rustic Tomato Soup. Desserts are easily prepared yet decadent. All the reader will need is a shopping list and a spirit of adventure. ... Read more

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This volume aims to offer no-nonsense cooking by RTE's guest chef Frank Moynihan who has cooked on the Gay Byrne show for thousands. It contains menu planning and simple nourishing food. ... Read more

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A simple introduction to Ireland, presenting some traditional recipes such as soda bread, Irish stew, Dublin coddle, and champ. ... Read more

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An account of Irish foods throughout the centuries and their special associations with wakes, weddings and the calendar feasts of the year. With frequent references to sources from literature and folklore, Brid Mahon charts the culinary history of Ireland. ... Read more

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Satisfactory compendium of lore, but less than thorough
Brid Mahon, a folklorist who has also written a memoir of gathering tales "While Green Grass Grows," obviously is steeped in the lore and stories that attest to the varieties of food & drink in both ancient and more recent Irish times. She veers, however, from her focus: half of the book's a recounting of whenever eatables & drinkables pop up in mythological and historical records; half a miscellany of how such foods and drinks were gathered, kept, and consumed. I was expecting more depth about how, say, mead was invented, but in that account all Mahon really noted were occasions of its consumption. The book's rather scattershot, but nonetheless enjoyable. Each chapter contains literary and popular citations for food & drink and while brief, the book's sufficient to whet your mental and perhaps physical appetite for a story too often neglected: how the Irish kept themselves going for centuries by imaginatively (or perhaps not always!) surviving on the bounty from land and, less often than might be expected, the sea.

One example: I tried, as one suspicious of most vegetables (having grown up with typically boiled foodstuffs!), to convince my more food-loving wife that Mahon, by quoting "potato and other vegetable" meant at a meal potato therefore was a vegetable, but she did not fall for this--although I was raised to think that not only potatoes but corn counted for the veggie! ... Read more

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Oh please!
Firstly, the previous review should have been about the book not the authors personal lifestyle.Secondly, She lives at the Waldorf towers and does NOT live on the farm.She paid a manager to care for these animals and trusted him to do his job.Her neighbor vouches for her in the following excerpt taken from an August 26, 2005 article in the New York Post "Food Writer Starved Horses".

Larry Levin, a neighbor of Cole's farm who is also a horse owner and lawyer, believes that for some of Cole's stable, it's too late. (to prevent them from dying)
"Some have died and been removed," Levin told us. "Nobody knows the body count. Or how many were originally there. A caretaker could have sold some of them, and Roz [Cole] would never have even known. She virtually never comes here. Sometimes there wasn't even a caretaker on the property."


That aside: The BOOK is a wonderful little item that does showcase those places that perhaps only a local would otherwise now.Or perhaps a seasoned traveler who was LOOKING for the places the locals go.We all know that wherever you go you should follow the locals and not the recomendations manufactured for tourists...esp if you're looking for authenticity.

Animal abuser/Horse killer
How can this woman publish cookbooks, live in the Waldorf-Astoria and starve her 52 horses to death.This is a horrible woman and everyone should boycott her books!!! ... Read more

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The best of this versatile vegetable and staple of the Irish diet, with flavors ranging from sweet to spicy, savory to sumptuous.Featured are traditional colcannon, the brunch favorite boxty, light potato bread and scones, warm potato salad, potato dumplings.Youll find recipes for floury, waxed, baked, roasted or mashed. ... Read more

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Rationing was introduced in Britain in the early years of the Second World War and lasted for nearly a decade after it finished. During that extraordinary period, when the nation had to rely on its own resources to produce its food, recipes reflected the shortages and restrictions that were an inevitable result. This book reproduces some of the many ingenious recipes which were developed to provide nutritious and tasty meals with the foodstuffs available such as Lord Woolton Pie, Mock Marzipan (made with haricot beans!), Sardine Fritters, Poor Man's Goose and Passion Dock Pudding (a 'square meal' made with dock leaves!) As well as the recipes, the book describes the history behind rationing and reveals how Britain coped - and benefited - from it. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs as well as many contemporary advertisements, this book provides a true taste of the time! ... Read more

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Forget the glitz and glamour of contemporary cookbooks, this is a real book about real food, including over four hundred and fifty Irish recipes, tried and tested and guaranteed to please. This volume focuses on soups, fish, vegetables, meat, poultry and game, as well as sauces and how to fix-up those pesky left-overs. Interspersed with the recipes are stories, anecdotes, helpful hints and food folklore, told in the inimitable style that has made Maura Laverty so highly acclaimed. This tightly-packed book is a cooking classic at a reasonable price. ... Read more

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Over 450 recipes for classic Irish cooking
Maura Laverty's Full & Plenty 2: Fish & Meat is a traditional Irish cookbook presenting over 450 recipes for classic Irish soups, fish, vegetables, meat, poultry, game, leftovers and sauces. All recipes have been kitchen-tested to ensure mouth-watering results. In addition to the recipes, Full & Plenty 2 also features numerous cooking tips and techniques, from the five classifications of soup to how to preserve beans, to an anecdotal story that illustrates the proper function of a sauce. From Steak and Kidney Pudding; Pork Pie; and Potato Soup; to Cornish Pastries; Kidney Stew; and Liver in Cider, Full & Plenty 2 is highly enjoyable not only as a source for preparing unique menus for delicious dinners, but also as wry armchair reading for those who enjoy to peruse cookbooks with a little extra zest for digression. ... Read more

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This guide introduces readers to a new school of British and Irish chefs, exploring the best cooking to be found in the British Isles. Over 150 delicious recipes are featured, from regional comfort foods and puddings to fresh 1990s-style innovations. The book provides insight into various regions' history and culture, and a glimpse of many local inns and restaurants. A geographical listing of restaurants and hotels and a recipe index are also included. ... Read more

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A GEM FULL OF DELIGHTFUL AND USEFUL HINTS FOR THE TRAVELER
Ms. Hyman has provided the traveller a beautiful book full of wonderful restaurants and descriptions useful while visiting in Britain and Ireland.My wife and I had Ms. Hyman's book at our side while travelling to Irelandlast year and to Britain this year.Not only does she provide localrecipes and the names of delightful restaurants but she includes commentsabout the local area which these travelers found extremely useful.Westayed a week in the Cottswalds this year and our travels and dining werebased on the recommendations of Ms. Hyman.We then spent a week in Londonand followed suit there.She led us to wonderful experiences we would nototherwise have found! ... Read more

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The Best Irish Drinks delivers countless recipes of cocktails straight from the Emerald Isle. Also included is information about Irish liquors, as well as famous Irish sayings and toasts.

Ray Foley is the ultimate authority on bartending. He is the publisher of Bartender magazine, the No. 1 magazine in circulation for the bartending trade. This book is the result of his years of experience working with bartenders.
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Everyone's Irish Tonight
This book is an incredibly fun way to learn a little history and learn how to make some great drinks. This particular book may not be the most comprehensive tome, but it's got a little something for everyone, wether Irish or not.

cute gag gift
Book arrived in plenty of time for Christmas. It's fairly small, but packs in alot of information. The first section features info on various liquors and beers - mostly whiskey and beer. Overall the information is condensed but interesting. Over a third of a the book is an alphabetical list of cocktails. We enjoyed the section on the Story of Irish coffee. There's a small section on Irish toasts - some were cute, others a little dull/dumb, but still interesting.

Cute Book
I agree with previous reviewer. Nice little book with plenty of drink recipes and Irish wisdom and heritage in it. Small in size, not a coffee table book by any means. Worth the $8-9 bucks you may pay for it.

Recipes with toasts, wisdom sayings, and Irish drink history
There are numerous cocktail cookbooks on the market already, but several things differentiate the pocket-tote-sized THE BEST IRISH DRINKS from others. First, they come directly from Ireland and thus represent authentic flavors based on the use of Irish liquors and ingredients. Second, its focus on recipes over flash assures 300 are packed into here and not watered down by the usual color glitter of the cocktail glass. Third, it rounds out recipes with toasts, wisdom sayings, and Irish drink history. What more could you want?

Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch
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