MUCH has changed on the Irish food scene since I started the Ballymaloe Cookery School in September 1983.

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From Forgotten Skills of Cooking by Darina Allen. Beef short ribs are about 8–10cm (3–4in) strips of a cross section of rib bones and the meat that links them together. This is more of an American butcher’s cut, but now that we’ve discovered short ribs over here, we can’t get enough of them. This cut cooks out to melting tenderness when slow-cooked, which is why we’ve chosen braising as the method of cooking and the high percentage of bone adds lots of extra flavour. If at all possible, make this the day before it’s needed – the flavour will be even better and it’ll be much easier to remove every scrap of fat when it has solidified on top.

The most remarkable thing about Chappaquiddick is that Kennedy was 37 years old at the time. This was not some youthful shenanigans gone wrong. Everything about the story — the drinking, philandering, poor judgment and lies — were the man. It was entirely in character

WE recently celebrated the festive foods of easter with a Slow Food event at the cookery school. A few weeks before the event, we had put some eggs in an incubator.

THE popularity of Joan Lucey was summed up yesterday as hundreds of mourners called to the family home to pay their last respects to the Co Cork woman killed in a motorcycle accident in Thailand.