Food for Hope: A Cookbook (In Support of the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association)

edited by Katie Hallissey

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Book
€20.00

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Publication date: 2013

ISBN: 978-1-907535-31-4

Category: Cookery

Type: Paperback

Price: €20

Food for Hope is the brainchild of Dolores MacKenna and Katie Hallissey, who lost family members to motor neurone disease. Well known people from all walks of Irish life each contributed a favourite recipe that they cook in their own kitchen or, in the case of chefs like Darina Allen and Catherine Fulvio, in their cookery school or restaurant. The result is not just a cookbook but a fascinating insight into people’s tastes and culinary repertoires.

  • Aslan keep it Irish with beef in Guinness.

  • John Lonergan goes nostalgic with traditional colcannon.

  • Pat Shortt’s boeuf bourguignonne shows a commitment to true French cuisine.

  • Enda Kenny claims that his stir fried pork fillet is ‘very quick, very simple, full of flavour and reasonably healthy’. All very creditable for a busy Taoiseach.

  • Just before she died in July 2012, novelist Maeve Binchy contributed her own favourite: potato cakes and mackerel smokies.

There are very few potatoes and no soda bread but plenty of stir frying, risotto and curries, Chinese and Thai, as well as a fitness-inducing wedding cake, courtesy of writer John MacKenna. As befits a busy people, may recipes are speedy as well as healthy. Even Catherine Cleary’s delicious ‘bunbelievables’ are entirely sugar free. Mouthwatering and atmospheric photographs by Michael O’Meara, Jess Walsh, Nadia Robinson and Fergal O’Callaghan complete the collection.

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About the editor

Katie Hallissey graduated from UCC in 1999 with a degree in Language and Cultural Studies. A lover of languages, Katie speaks Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese. After living for almost five years in Barcelona, where she studied and worked as an English teacher, Katie settled in Blarney, County Cork. She is married to Marco, who originally came from Milan. Katie serves as a board director with the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association and is passionate about raising awareness of this disease as well as fundraising to support the good work of the association countrywide.