
Allianz Garden Show Ireland postponed
It is with great regret that due to the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus) Allianz Garden Show Ireland will no longer... Read More
Paula McIntyre - The Show's Resident Chef
My mum was a really good, adventurous cook. We had “exotic” things like spaghetti in the seventies! A visit to Valvona and Crolla in Edinburgh, when I was 8, inspired me to take up cooking as a living.
Northern Irish food producers and growers inspire me every day. I go to St George’s market most Saturday mornings and what’s available dictates what I cook. I’m Director of Slow Food in Northern Ireland and have met so many inspirational chefs and producers through this global movement. I travel a lot and pick up lots of recipes and techniques through eating out and visiting wine makers and producers abroad.
Lemon verbena for desserts and I’ve been experimenting with heather lately when smoking food.
The singer James Taylor, the chef Dan Barber (author of the Third Plate) and Bette Midler.
I really like taking a local vegetable like an onion and roasting it, smoking it, grilling it and trying to bring out as much flavour as possible. I roast the skins and grind them into an “ash” which I use to roll in roasted vegetables.
A really good, sharp, well balanced Japanese knife.
Keep it simple!
I’m looking forward to cooking with great local ingredients, catching up with and meeting new people, and trying to add to my minuscule knowledge of gardening!
Paula is busy cooking up a fabulous programme of food for you!
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