Best of Irish Festive Cooking

By Biddy White Lennon

The Best of traditional Irish foods cooked with modern flair

The Irish calendar provides many days for feasting and traditional celebration: St Brigid's Day, which announces the spring; St Patrick's Day, Shrove Tuesday, Bealtaine (May), Bloomsday, Lughnasa (August), Hallowe'en, Women's Christmas (Nollaig na mBan). Then there are the newer festivals that celebrate the rich harvest of our seas and fields -- The Galway Oyster Festival, the Wexford Strawberry Festival. These sixty recipes offer a tempting selection of foods for all these occasions, as well as for christenings, weddings and wakes.

Details of customs, folklore and Irish regional food traditions provide a fascinating background to the recipes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0862789303
• ISBN13: 9780862789305
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: O'Brien Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.6"