A celebration by Glynn Anderson and John McLaughlin
IRELAND is indeed home to a collection of fine cheeses that is internationally recognised. That recognition and praise is herald through the leaves of a new book launched this month.
Compiled as an encyclopaedia of cheese, the new book, Farmhouse Cheeses of Ireland is a book documenting and introducing the fantastic cheeses of Ireland.
Published by The Collins Press, Cork, with support from Bord Bia, this new cheese guide is the first of its kind solely devoted to the island of Ireland and celebrates Irish farmhouse and artisanal cheesemakers and the wonderful cheeses that they produce.
Illustrated with lavish photography, the book includes Irish farmhouse cheese recipes from some of Ireland’s most celebrated chefs: Darina Allen, Rachel Allen, Derry Clarke, Denis Cotter, Catherine Fulvio, Ross Lewis, Clodagh McKenna, Claire Nash and others.
Each cheese description is supported by a table of useful facts and figures and easy-to-use colour-coded icons, and the book is completed with chapters on how to make cheese and the history of cheese in Ireland.
See details of Beal Organic Cheese, yes, the one from Dragon’s Den, Ed Harper, the blind man who has tended goats on Clear Island for 35 years and the first Irish buffalo mozzarella produced in Cork by Toby Simmonds and John Lynch.
The hardback book is available in all good bookstores from this month priced at €24.99.
