Darina Allen's recipes are standing the test of time

Her Simply Delicious books taught a generation of Irish people to cook. Now, in a new book, Darina Allen has compiled 100 recipes from the classic collection for the next generation, writes Joe McNamee

After all these years, they still regularly reveal themselves, randomly popping up like mushrooms, in jumble sales and charity shops, old bookstores and market stalls and, most of all, on the kitchen shelves of literally thousands upon thousands of Irish homes, one or more of those deceptively slight volumes from the Simply Delicious range of cookery books that first taught a generation of Irish people to cook.