- Rachel Allen
Rachel Allen (born Birth date and age|1972|03|21 in
Dublin ) is an Irish celebrity chef.Biography
Encouraged by her family, Rachel went to the Ballymaloe Cookery School at the age of 18. After graduating from the school she cooked at the renowned 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 before returning again to teach at Ballymaloe. This is one of the premier cookery schools in Ireland and the UK and has an international reputation. Students take residential courses and live in cottages in the grounds which are in the gorgeous countryside ofCounty Cork , close to the coast.In September 2004
RTE broadcast Rachel’s first series Rachel’s Favourite Food, that’s currently being screened onBBC1 each Saturday morning, and has also been seen inAustralia ,Italy , parts ofAfrica and elsewhere. Rachel’s Favourite Food the book to accompany the series was published byGill & Macmillan . Rachel has now finished the follow up book and her new TV series both called Rachel’s Favourite Food for Friends. Her third series, Rachel's Favourite Food At Home, looks set to continue the success of her previous shows and can currently be seen onBBC1 . The accompanying book to the series, Rachel's Favourite Food At Home (Harper Collins ) is now available. Rachel also is a frequent guest onSaturday Kitchen on BBC1. As of September 2008 Rachel will be one of the presenters on theUKTV Food Market Kitchen show.Rachel has written for many Irish publications including 3 years on Irish lifestyle magazine Image and now has a weekly column in
The Sunday Tribune Magazine. She has also contributed to BBC Good Food magazine and AWT At Home magazine.Rachel has most recently appeared at Taste of the World for the
New York Times as the special guest of the Irish Tourist Board.Rachel lives near Ballymaloe with her husband, another cook, who runs two restaurants in Cork, and two children, however Rachel is pregnant with her third child at this present time. [ [http://uktv.co.uk/food/item/aid/530905 UKTV Food: Chefs: Rachel Allen ] ] .
On the
20th September 2008 Allen appeared at theMold Food Festival inFlintshire ,North Wales References
External links
* http://www.rachelallen.co.uk
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