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Beautiful Bluebells growing in the woods on the grounds of Ballymaloe House.

You can see what else is growing over on our garden blog for April 2014 written by gardener Mags Coughlan.

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Maggie has written 9 books in total. The first being Maggie’s Farm, followed by Maggie’s Orchard and Cooking with Verjuice. She then collaborated with Stephanie Alexander and chronicled their Italian cooking school experiences in Stephanie and Maggie’s Tuscan Cookbook which has been translated into 5 languages. Her fifth book Maggie’s Table won the Best Regional Cook Book in English in 2001, and then against all other languages, replicated its success in the Gourmand World Cook Book Awards in Perigord, France.

We are delighted to announce our guest chefs for our last Supper Club for the year.

Ivan Whelan of Grapefruit Moon fame, Michael Quinn one of Irelands leading chefs and former head chef of Waterford Castle, Sally Mckenna author of McKenna Guides and leading expert on Seaweed and Aiden McGrath owner of Wilde Honey.

The evening begins at 7.30pm and includes a set 4 course meal for €45 per person.

There will be wines recommended to suit each course. These, as well as wines from our cellar, will be available to buy.

We would like to wish Rory O'Connell a heartfelt congratulations for winning the 'Andre Simon Award' for 'best cookbook published in 2013' for his first cook book 'Master It'.

Rory was Head chef of Ballymaloe Country House Hotel for ten years, he co-founded the Ballymaloe Cookery School with Darina Allen. He was twice awarded the prestigious title of Ireland’s Chef of the Year.

Congratulations Rory from everyone at Ballymaloe Country House Hotel!