The Menu: The Farmette Cookbook by Imen McDonnell

It takes a special kind of cookbook to earn a mention in The Menu and The Farmette Cookbook: Recipes & Adventures from My Life on an Irish Farm (Roost Books), by Imen McDonnell, is certainly such a tome. 

The Menu: The Farmette Cookbook by Imen McDonnell
Sat, 09 Apr, 2016 - 01:00
Joe McNamee

Imen jettisoned a burgeoning career in the US broadcast industry to hotfoot it after her new swain back to his Co Limerick family farm and don her first pair of wellies.

It was hard going initially, but Imen gradually embraced life in rural Ireland, learning to cook and grow with much help from her new mother-in-law.

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