Alan kitchen typography biography of rory

After school, I studied law but I was hopeless at it. I spent most of my time at the races. I’m still a huge racing fan. Then I messed around with auctioneering and a few other things until, eventually, my mother suggested I go down to visit Darina in Ballymaloe. The minute I began working in the kitchen there, the penny dropped: I discovered that not only was I capable of cooking, I also enjoyed doing it.

After that, I spent most of my time in restaurant kitchens. Becoming a teacher and TV chef happened by accident. As head chef, you have to be a good teacher, so that simply morphed into me opening the Ballymaloe Cookery School school with Darina.

I still get a huge buzz from following a recipe and being able to see the fruits of my labour so quickly and to be able to create something that gives pleasure to others.

In order to be a good cook you need to love your ingredients and care where they come from and about the people who produce that food.

We don’t spray our fruit or vegetables. The use of organic produce is at the core of everything we teach at Ballymaloe. It colours everything we do.

My idea of bliss is cooking dinner from simple local ingredients and sharing it with loved ones.

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This much I know: Rory Allen, Ballymaloe Grainstore

Farming is a good and healthy way of life but don’t ask a farm to keep you in money. Do something else for your income and enjoy the farm. It’s a sad fact that food production has been reduced to that.

I spent two years in New Zealand, attending university and working on dairy farms there, before I came home to take over Ballymaloe. We enjoyed New Zealand so much we might have stayed there had I not got a farm to come home to.

I was a slightly reserved and shy child. Certainly not one of the noisy, trouble making kind.

When I was in my teens I was very keen on classical and flamenco guitar. I would have liked to study the guitar more seriously but that was not to be. Twice I played a classical piece on RTÉ television and once with the RTÉ Symphony backing me and Colman Pierce conducting.

I think I am achieving a reasonable work/life balance. It’s very important to be reasonably busy in order to appreciate your time off. If you can enjoy your work, or get good satisfaction from it, time off becomes less important.

I would say I am reasonably disciplined. Daily exercise becomes very important as years pass. I try to keep that up.

My most unusual skill would be as a windsurfer. It’s an unbelievable, invigorating sport.