Darina Allen: A Life Through Food

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino finds out how a family farm in west Cork became one of the world's most influential cookery schools. Featuring Darina and Rachel Allen, Rory O'Connell and JR Ryall.

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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0:00.0	Hi Curios, I'm Dara Brien.
0:03.0	And I'm Hannah Frye.
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0:23.9	Curious cases.
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0:33.2	It's eight.
0:34.7	Yes.
0:35.4	He's over.
0:36.8	Thank you. Cara, yes, just eat. It's 8.30 in the morning and in a large open for an assembly. To be in this room. To be in this room, many have travelled from thousands of miles away.
0:57.0	They've often been on waiting lists in the hope of winning a place and had to work for years to fund those places.
1:05.0	Many will say being on this roll call has been life-changing.
1:10.0	Yes, Tina. Some people arrive here. this roll call has been life-changing.
1:21.6	Some people arrive here not knowing how to boil an egg and then over a period of 12 weeks of intensive learning they can become culinary experts, immersing themselves in everything from baking and butchery to roasting and fermenting.
1:30.3	For these particular students, their time at the Ballymolu Cookery School is coming to an end.
1:36.3	And in a couple of days, an exam awaits, followed in some cases by a career and quite possibly a life in food.
1:45.0	Have a fabulous Monday week of all.
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