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In 1975, Myrtle Allen became the first Irish woman to receive a Michelin Star, which she held for five years. [8] Darina married the Allen's son Tim, and (together with her brother Rory O'Connell) started the Ballymaloe Cooking School in nearby Kinoith in 1983. [9] [8] Ballymaloe Cookery School is located approximately 4 km from Ballymaloe House.
Myrtle Allen (13 March 1924 – 13 June 2018) was an Irish Michelin star-winning head chef and co-owner of the restaurant The Yeats Room at Ballymaloe House in Shanagarry, County Cork. Besides her career in cooking, she had also been a writer, hotelier and teacher.
She is a leader of the Slow Food movement in Ireland and instrumental in establishing a network of farmers' markets in the County Cork area. In the 1960s she was sous-chef at Ballymaloe House and started giving courses in cooking. Later she moved the cookery classes to Kinoith under the name of Ballymaloe Cookery School.
Allen went to the Ballymaloe Cookery School at the age of 18. [3] After graduating from the school she cooked at the Ballymaloe House Hotel, eventually returning first to test recipes and then to teach at the school. She worked for a while as a caterer in Vancouver [4] before returning to teach at Ballymaloe Cookery School.
The School offers programmes from Level 6 Higher Certificate up to Level 10 PhD on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications. Undergraduate programmes and disciplines include Culinary Arts, Culinary Entrepreneurship, Culinary Science, Baking and Pastry Arts Management, Bar and Restaurant Management, and Food Management and Entrepreneurship.
The Egon Ronay Guide awarded the restaurant one star in the periods 1975–1981, 1983-1984 and 1987–1988. [5] The kitchen style of Ballymaloe House is Modern Irish. In 1964 the Allen family, who had purchased the Ballymaloe estate, converted the old dining room into a restaurant. They named the restaurant The Yeats Room. In 1967 the first few ...
The village is located near Ireland's south coast, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) east of Cork, on the R632 regional road. Shanagarry is known for the Ballymaloe Cookery School, in the home and gardens of celebrity chef Darina Allen. Also resident here is Darina's daughter-in-law and chef Rachel Allen.
Haugh's first documented role in television was in BBC's The Stress Test (2004) while working at Pied à Terre with Shane Osborn. She appeared as a guest judge on Gordon Ramsey's U.S. show Hell's Kitchen [4] in 2013 and was a chef on BBC's Ready Steady Cook [3] presented by Rylan Clark-Neal.