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The Ballymaloe Cookery School (ba-lee-ma-LOO) is a privately run cookery school in Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland, that was opened in 1983.It is run by Darina Allen, a celebrity chef, cookery book author and pioneer of the slow food movement in Ireland.
According to the website, the Ballymaloe Cookery School is based in southern Ireland and is "the only cookery school in the world situated on our own extensive, organically certified farm."
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. She married Tim Allen, son of Myrtle Allen and Ivan Allen, and now lives on her organic farm, Kinoith, in Shanagarry.
Later she changed a few unused rooms into rooms for a guesthouse, which grew into the hotel Ballymaloe is today. By the 1960s she and her sous-chef, Darina O'Connell, started giving courses in cooking. Later Darina, by then married to Myrtle's son Tim Allen, moved the cookery classes to Kinoith under the name of Ballymaloe Cookery School.
She and her husband, Daniel Neeleman, traveled with their eight children to Ireland where they will live for a period of time while the couple attends school at Ballymaloe Cookery School.
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. Shanagarry Castle passed to the family of William Penn in the 1660s; it was his occasional residence before he left for Pennsylvania and started his Holy Experiment. [3]
It was a three-month course at Ballymaloe that sparked her passion for food. [16] It was while attending Ballymaloe Cookery School and learning from Myrtle Allen, Rachel started dating Myrtle's grandson, Isaac, when they were both aged 18. They married in 1998. [17] The wedding took place at Cloyne Cathedral.
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