Darina Allen inspiring the next generation

The NeighbourFood Podcast

To commence the new year, we are bringing you stories of the new generation and young people working in Irish food. But to kick things off, we are commencing this series with Darina Allen of Ballymaloe Cookery School, one of the most influential people in Irish food, who has inspired generations through her work in Ballymaloe Cookery School. She is of course a food writer, tv personality, teacher and activist. She is passionate about making change, acknowledges the need for things to be done and never has a problem diving in and sorting them out when she can.

We spoke to her about her early days, who inspired her back then, who is inspiring her now, what are her hopes for the new generation of people working in food and what are her hopes for the future?

We began our conversation by asking her to bring us back to day one of opening the cookery school in Ballymaloe Cookery School. What was that moment like and where was she at that time? But she invites us back even before then to her school-going days as this is where her journey in food really began.

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