Top of the class

WE’RE bursting with pride here at the Ballymaloe Cookery School these days: three of our past students have books in the bestsellers’ list.

Thomasina Miers second book, Cook, is flying off the shelves; the Irish Farmers’ Market Cookbook by Clodagh McKenna is also being snapped up as is my lovely daughter-in-law Rachel’s Favourite Food at Home, which was written to accompany her television series of the same name.

Rachel has been doing book-signings all over the country, and I met Clodagh in London last weekend, where she, too, was doing several signing sessions.