Joy in good food

IT’S a few years ago now since a chap called Paddy Daly from Dublin arrived to do a one week introductory course at the cookery school.

When he arrived into the car park in his camper van it took him all the courage he could muster to walk into the school. Paddy, a man in his 60s was going through a harrowing time, he was nursing his much-loved wife through a long illness. He was bereft and had lost his will to live. She had been a wonderful cook — Paddy missed her delicious food so much and was becoming more and more despondent when he was unable to cook tasty food to cheer her up as her health deteriorated.

In a concerted effort to provide new hope and enthusiasm in his life, his family had clubbed together to give him a present of a cooking course.