Title:Contributing WriterEducation:Dublin Institute of TechnologyLocation:Shanagarry, IrelandExpertise:Culinary education, Irish cuisine, cookbooks, farmers’ marketsDarina Allen is an Irish chef and founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School. Darina is an advocate of the Slow Food movement and helped organize some of the first farmers’ markets in Ireland. She won the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cooking Teacher of the Year award in 2005, the U.K. Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 and the Guaranteed Irish Food Hero Award in 2018. She has received the Andre Simon Book Award for her cookbook Forgotten Skills of Cooking and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Grow, Cook, Nourish. Darina is also the host of the cooking show Simply Delicious, a food columnist for the Irish Examiner and adjunct professor at University College Cork.B.S. in Hotel Management, Dublin Institute of TechnologyEatingWell, aDotdash Meredith Brand, has been publishing award-winning journalism about food, nutrition and sustainability since 1990. Our mission is to share flavor-packed recipes from around the world, celebrating fresh ingredients and the farmers, artisans and chefs who bring them to our table. Through science-backed nutrition advice and smart stories about sustainability, we help readers live their best lives. Learn moreabout usand oureditorial process.

Title:Contributing WriterEducation:Dublin Institute of TechnologyLocation:Shanagarry, IrelandExpertise:Culinary education, Irish cuisine, cookbooks, farmers’ markets

Title:Contributing Writer

Education:Dublin Institute of Technology

Location:Shanagarry, Ireland

Expertise:Culinary education, Irish cuisine, cookbooks, farmers’ markets

Darina Allen is an Irish chef and founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School. Darina is an advocate of the Slow Food movement and helped organize some of the first farmers’ markets in Ireland. She won the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cooking Teacher of the Year award in 2005, the U.K. Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award in 2013 and the Guaranteed Irish Food Hero Award in 2018. She has received the Andre Simon Book Award for her cookbook Forgotten Skills of Cooking and the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Grow, Cook, Nourish. Darina is also the host of the cooking show Simply Delicious, a food columnist for the Irish Examiner and adjunct professor at University College Cork.

B.S. in Hotel Management, Dublin Institute of Technology

EatingWell, aDotdash Meredith Brand, has been publishing award-winning journalism about food, nutrition and sustainability since 1990. Our mission is to share flavor-packed recipes from around the world, celebrating fresh ingredients and the farmers, artisans and chefs who bring them to our table. Through science-backed nutrition advice and smart stories about sustainability, we help readers live their best lives. Learn moreabout usand oureditorial process.