Expert chef, David Rice, boils down art of cooking seafood

The Menu’s most recent visit to Kinsale was for the purpose of first broadening mind before waistband, at the newly opened Kinsale Gourmet Academy, in Ballinacurra House. 

He and a bevy of local belles assembled in the fine and funky little purpose-built school on the grounds of the stately home, as chef/tutor David Rice set about educating all and sundry in the art of cooking seafood.

Rice is as good a chef as he is a teacher: he worked for a number of years in Chapter One and also put down stints in Gordon Ramsay’s Claridge’s, River Café and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen; and he was head tutor at the Cook’s Academy Cookery School, Dublin for several years.