The Rocket Man’s Beetroot and Farro Salad with Caramelised Onion

WE RECENTLY celebrated 30 years of the Ballymaloe Cookery School.

The three decades since we first opened our doors in 1983 seem to have whizzed by in a blur.

My brother Rory O’Connell and I started the cookery school together and welcomed the first certificate course students in September of that year. Since then students from over 40 countries have joined us and many of those returned from far and wide to celebrate the Ballymaloe Cookery School Gathering with us.