Irish Food and Cooking

See also: British Food & Cooking

Selected Books

For additional titles, browse Cookery -- Irish

Allen, Darina
A Year at Ballymaloe Cookery School
q TX717.5.A4398 2007x
With more than 125 recipes, this is a celebration of fresh produce and good food and is an invaluable guide to making the best of seasonal produce.

Allen, Darina
Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cooking School Cookbook
TX717.5.A4383 2001x
Under the enthusiastic direction of one of Ireland's most beloved culinary artists, readers can learn over 100 basic kitchen techniques. Applied to a mouthwatering array of more than 500 recipes, these lessons are designed to instill confidence in the beginner while encouraging experienced cooks to expand their repertoire.

Allen, Darina
The Complete Book of Irish Country Cooking
TX717.5 .A436 1996x
Learn traditional methods of Irish cooking, with an emphasis on organic and seasonal ingredients. Check here for recipes for limpets, cockles, periwinkles, pigeon pie, woodcock and snipe, black and white puddings.

Campbell, Georgina
Classic Irish Recipes
TX717.5 .C36 1992
Scores of delicious recipes...from soups, fish, and meat courses to condiments and traditional beverages. "The outstanding characteristic of these recipes is simplicity--simple and tasty on the tongue while filling and wholesome for the body." --Irish Herald

Donnelly, Nell
Pot Luck: Potato Recipes from Ireland
TX803.P8 D66 1987x
Better known as spuds, praties or Murphys, the potato has been associated for so long with Ireland that it's easy to take it for granted. But boiled or mashed aren't the only ways of serving this always-in-season vegetable. Combining the traditional and innovative, Nell Donnelly exploits the amazing capacity of the potato to fill an incredible range of soups, stews, chowders, salads, including oven-baked and easy Potato and Cheese Pie and the tantalizing taste of Frosted Lamb Loaf.

Hughes, Martin
World Food: Ireland
TX641.H84 2000x
Lavishly illustrated with color photographs, this compact gastronomic tour of the Emerald Isle includes recipes, regional specialties, and a reference glossary of traditional Irish food and drink.

Johnson, Margaret M.
The Irish Heritage Cookbook
TX717.5.J64 1999
Roughly 44 million Americans of Irish descent, though understandably proud of their heritage, have grown up with a shocking degree of cultural deprivation with regard to the culinary traditions of their ancestors. For most, Irish cuisine means potatoes, corned beef, and cabbage. Now at last, The Irish Heritage Cookbook will set the record straight. Margaret Johnson offers a much-needed fresh perspective on what Irish cooking is all about.

Johnson, Margaret M.
The Irish Pub Cookbook
TX717.5.J642 2006
Talk about the luck of the Irish! One of the most beloved of Irish institutions (there are more than one thousand in Dublin alone), the traditional pub has served generations as the venue for local gossip, sporting news, a ceilidh or two, literary soirees, real estate deals, political debates, revolutionary plots, and, lest we forget, for knocking back a pint of Guinness or a "ball of malt." The food's not bad either!

Johnson, Margaret M.
The Irish Spirit: Recipes inspired by the legendary drinks of Ireland
TX726.J644 2006
The Irish Spirit combines the Emerald Isle's favorite recipes with a touch of ale, stout, cider, or whiskey, creating terrific new flavor combinations.

Johnson, Margaret M.
The New Irish Table
TX717.5.J638 2003
Author Johnson's love of Ireland permeates page after glorious page of mouthwatering Irish dishes. These 75 recipes reflect the traditions of the national cuisine and also showcase the most exciting new tastes from the home cooks and professional chefs who're part of the culinary renaissance in Ireland today.

Ross, Ruth Isabel
The Little Book of Irish Family Cooking
TX717.5.R57 1997
Here is a charming collection of 73 recipes for Irish family favorites that is perfect for St. Patrick's Day. Wholesome and filling, many of these recipes have been handed down from generation to generation.

Ross, Ruth Isabel
The Little Irish Baking Book
TX765 .R68 1996
"Visitors to Ireland go home with glowing accounts of Irish baking," writes Ruth Isabel Ross. In her delightfully eclectic work, The Little Irish Baking Book, Ross brings the warmth of an Irish hearth to your home. this collection of recipes for the best yeast breads, pies both savory and sweet, puddings, cakes, and cookies will be a treasure trove of traditional family favorites for years to come.

Sheridan, Monica
The Art of Irish Cooking
Apart from its practical value, The Art of Irish Cooking will come as a shock to any benighted folk who may still think of Ireland as a primitive country where the people subsist mainly on potatoes, porridge, and buttermilk. The many Americans who come to visit us each year are, of course, familiar with the real Ireland: a modern democracy with a fast-growing economy, the world's highest calorie-intake, and a vigorous, healthy population.

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Websites

• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: New Celtic Cooking
  Fresh, local and lucky: Irish dishes recast cuisine beyond corned beef. A Thursday, March 02, 2006, article by Gretchen McKay.
• Bord Bia (Irish Food Board)
  Bord Bia promotes Irish food and drink under the banner, Ireland - The Food Island. In their consumer section, they offer recipes, both contemporary and traditional, using Irish meats, eggs, and dairy products. Recipes include Smoked Salmon on Potato Cakes, Traditional White Soda Bread, Irish Stew, Braised Beef in Stout, Traditional Bacon & Cabbage with Mustard Sauce, and Colcannon.
• Bridgestone Guides: Contemporary Irish Recipes
  Bridgestone publishes dining and accommodations guides to Ireland and includes here around 76 recipes, some of them traditional, like Bannocks, Fadge, Soda Bread, Hot Cross Buns, and Carrageen Moss Pudding.
• Epicurious Search: Irish
  Included in this Gourmet/Bon Appetit collection are Irish currant and raisin cake, Irish brown bread, Irish soda bread with raisins, Irish stew, Irish bacon and cabbage.
• Food Ireland: Recipes
  At this food importer site, you can buy all the ingredients you need for an Irish breakfast: Irish Sausages, Irish bacon, Black Pudding, White Pudding, and beans.
• Food Network: Global Cuisine: Ireland
  Tips on eating in Ireland, Irish ingredients, and some classic Irish recipes.
• Food Network: St. Patrick's Day
  Watch videos on Irish Colcannon, All about Stout, Guinness-Soaked Beef, and Guinness Chocolate Cake. Learn how to make a Black and Tan with Lager and Stout. Test out classic Irish eats; stews with root vegetables like turnips, parsnips and swedes; soda bread, and desserts like Strawberry-Rhubarb Irish Crumble with Irish Whiskey Butter.
• Global Gourmet: Ireland
  Links to basic information on Irish cuisine with selected lists of menus, recipes and other texts.
• IrelandBy.com: Traditional Irish Cuisine
  A selection of Irish recipes
• Ireland's Eye: Irish Recipes and Baking
  Recipe exerpts from the Appletree Press title: A Little Irish Cookbook. Includes Barmbrack, Beef in Guinness, Boxty.
• Irish Abroad: Recipes from the Irish Kitchen
  Recipes contributed by members of Irish Abroad. Included are classics like cod cobbler, Dublin coddle, Irish stew.

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Irish Restaurants in Pittsburgh

• Claddagh Irish Pub
  A new chain restaurant in South Side Works serving some Irish dishes and drinks, including Guinness stout, corned beef and cabbage, fish and chips, beef and Guinness stew, shepherd's pie, bangers and mash.
• Finnigan's Wake Irish Pub
  Pittsburgh's largest Irish Pub, located on the Northside.
• Molly Brannigans Traditional Irish Pub and Restaurant
  Located in Mt. Lebanon, Molly Brannigans offers some traditional Irish dishes like fish and chips, Guinness stew, corned beef, mixed grill, boxty, bangers and mash.
• Mullaney's Harp & Fiddle Irish Pub
  The Harp and Fiddle Irish Pub offers traditional Irish specialties such as Corned Beef & Cabbage, Irish Stew, Shepherd's Pie, Cottage Pie, Fish & Chips, George Bernard Shaw Platter (vegetarian), Bangers & Rashers With Mash, and Ploughman's Platter. It also offers pints of Guinness, Smithwick's Ale, Murphy's, Harp Lager, and Boddingtons.
• Piper's Pub
  A British pub on East Carson Street on the South Side, Piper's pub offers traditional British and Irish dishes, including breakfasts and boxty.