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If you've ever prayed for kitchen inspiration, Rachel's Favourite Food at Home serves up the answers. Brand new in paperback and including new recipes, this beautifully illustrated cookbook offers the delicious, inspiring and easy-to-follow recipes for which Rachel Allen has become famous. Rachel's Favourite Food at Home draws on international influences, classic regional fare and good old family favourites to provide creative options for every occasion, whether planning a simple family meal, hosting a festive dinner for the entire clan, squeezing in a sneaky romantic meal for two, heading out for a glorious picnic, chilling out on the sofa with your favourite comfort food, or spending time baking muffins with the kids. Chapters include: Easy Family Food Sweet Celebrations Picnics and Days Out Food for Children Extended Family Meals Dining Al Fresco Home Cinema Big Celebrations Edible Gifts Just Like Mum Used to Make Key title --The hardback was a #1 best seller in Ireland and the #5 bestselling new cookery book in the UK and Ireland for 2006, and was in the Amazon top 100 for seven months (and counting!) --Rachel has recently appeared in a 13-part RTE prime-time and BBC1 Saturday Morning programme and continues to make guest appearances on BBC's Saturday Kitchen. - Rachel's first programme, Rachel's Favourite Food, is the most successful cookery show ever made for Irish television, and has been broadcast on RTE1, BBC2, UKTV, BBC Food, and also broadcast in Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Middle East and Africa. --Rachel's backlist titles continually make the Amazon top 100. --The perfect Christmas gift for any home cook, sure to become a kitchen classic. -- Rachel is famous for her simple and delicious recipes, and her popularity extends far beyond Ireland.

About the Author

Rachel was brought up in Dublin and at the age of eighteen left to study at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School. Today, she not only teaches at the school, she also writes regular features for national publications and presents highly acclaimed television programmes, which have been broadcast internationally. Alongside her many bestselling titles, she is also the winner of the 2012 Irish Book Award for Best Non-Fiction for Easy Meals.

Rachel lives in Country Cork with her husband Isaac and their three children.

Reviews

'A natural TV chef: relaxed, articulate and knowledgeable' -- Sunday Times '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 YOU Magazine '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 '...an obvious addition to the best-loved and most-used category of cookbook' -- Sunday Tribune