Maggie Beer’s Salmon with Sorrel Butter

THE excitement is really mounting, it’s just a week to this year’s Lit Fest at Ballymaloe, May 16-18.

We’re particularly delighted that Kerrygold has come on board as our festival sponsors so the event has been renamed Kerrygold Ballymaloe Literary Festival of Food and Wine. The line up of speakers and events is, if anything, even more thrilling than last year’s inaugural event. There are many once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to see culinary icons like Diana Kennedy coming all the way from Michoacan in Mexico and Maggie Beer from Australia whose beautiful food and writing have thrilled countless people over the years.

Rene Redzepi of Noma, Copenhagen will be here. Fermentation expert Sandor Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation, is back with the Ottolenghi boys, and Simon Hopkinson will be here all weekend.