‘Judge me on my food’ says Danni Barry - Ireland's only Michelin star female chef

Danni Barry does not want to be known as the only ‘female’ chef in Ireland who has a Michelin star. Her gender is irrelevant, she tells Joe McNamee

SINCE Danni Barry garnered her first Michelin star, in 2015, there has been a huge demand on her time, but she didn’t hesitate when Tess Perry, of Glebe House, in Baltimore, West Cork, asked her to cook a pop-up dinner for Taste of West Cork last year. Cooking in a country house that boasted its own smallholding, which supplies the kitchen, is Danni’s idea of culinary heaven, a farm-to-fork lifestyle she has known since her childhood as a GAA-mad youngster, in Co Down.

Danni is the second child of four and grew up on the family farm, in Mayobridge.