Favorite Food at Home: Delicious Comfort Food from Ireland’s Most Famous Chef

“Food for real people.”
—Irish Examiner

In Favorite Food at Home, Ireland’s favorite chef, Rachel Allen, “the Irish cooking queen” (BBC), provides inspirational, easy-to-follow recipes for delicious, comforting, soul satisfying meals you can prepare and enjoy at home with family and friends. A teacher at the famed cooking school at Ballymaloe—the Emerald Isle’s answer to Nigella Lawson—Allen has already been featured in Food & Wine, on Today, and The Martha Stewart radio show, and Favorite Food at Home will likely make her a household name in America as well.

In this beautifully illustrated cookbook, Rachel Allen offers the delicious, inspiring, and easy-to-follow recipes that have made her Ireland's most famous chef. Favorite Food at Home draws on international influences, classic regional Irish fare, and good old family favorites to provide creative options for every occasion, whether planning a simple family meal, hosting a festive dinner, cooking a romantic meal for two, or just relaxing on the sofa with your favorite comfort food.

“Food for real people.” - Irish Examiner

“If you haven’t heard of Rachel Allen, you will soon. Ireland’s blond and beautiful equivalent of Nigella Lawson . . . is taking her place on the international culinary scene with her everyday food that focuses on simple suppers and divine puddings.” - Daily Mail’s YOU Magazine (UK)

“With her finely-etched patrician features and delicious recipes, Rachel manages to do what the buxom Nigella Lawson never could. She makes us believe we can do what she does.” - Irish Post