Weekend food with Darina Allen

THE Ballymaloe Cookery School operates throughout the year with everything from one day, two and half day and week-long courses as well as three, three month certificate courses every year.

Students come from all over the world, this time there are 14 nationalities, so our little village of Shanagarry becomes even more cosmopolitan.

Among the May students is a Russian girl called Katya Pal who has taken a three month sabbatical from her job with the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature.)