Stevie Parle’s Madeleines

A MONTH after the Literary Festival of Food and Wine at Ballymaloe we’re still getting excited feedback and thank you cards in response to the event, from both participants and those who came along over the May Bank Holiday weekend.

Sun, 02 Jun, 2013 - 01:00

Darina Allen

Darina Allen is co-founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School and more recently the Ballymaloe Organic Farm School in Shanagarry, East Cork.

Plans are already underway for 2014 — looks like May 16-18 — so perhaps that’s a date to go into your diary. We have a long list of tweaks and suggestions for next time around and I’m sure the list will grow and grow.

The Big Shed at Ballymaloe House which housed the Fringe ‘part venue part food market’ as Michael Kelly of GIY put it, was the lively heart of the festival which throbbed with energy throughout the entire weekend.