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Celebrity chef Rachel Allen: ‘I was a Foxrock girl, I never dreamed I would end up living on a farm in the country’
The famous chef and teacher has written 14 cookbooks while her TV cookery shows have been broadcast in 30 countries
Rachel Allen is a bestselling cookery writer, TV chef and teacher at the world-famous Ballymaloe Cookery School in Cork. But it was far from rural Shanagarry that she was raised.
“I was a proper Dublin girl, brought up in Foxrock. I never dreamed I would end up living on a farm in the country,” she says. “I had dreams of being a dancer, an actress or a shoe designer but my parents encouraged me to ...