Review of Ballyknocken Cookery School including 2 traditional Irish recipes

Ireland has gotten a bad rap for its cuisine, based primarily on preconceptions that all you’ll find to eat on the Emerald Isle are traditional Irish stew, potatoes and cabbage. There is, in fact, much more to modern Irish cuisine than this, and you’ll find a dozen Michelin-starred restaurantsaround the country whose culinary creativity has been winning awards for years.That being said, as someone who has never successfully cooked a proper stew in my life, I was looking forward to sampling some of the traditional Irish dishes when I visited the country this past September, especially knowing that Ireland’s reputation for beef has been soaring in recent years. It’s no wonder their beef has been praised; with almost 65% of Ireland’s land used for farming (much of which is made up of small farms under 80 acres in size), here locally-produced, “farm-to-table” food isn’t just a trend, it’s a lifestyle.So what better place to enjoy my first Irish stew than on a 280-acre farm with a Cordon-Bl...