Recipes from Ireland [Spiral-bound]

Joanne Asala (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1995

This spiral-bound index card size recipe book contains authentic recipes selected from celebrated pubs in Ireland, as well Irish-American cooks. Includes charming facts and lore: a great gift for Irish-Americans.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Mix together folklore connoisseur Joanne Asala, historian/editor David Wright, visual artist Patrick J. Costello, and writer/storyteller William Cotter Murray and the result is this delightful revised and expanded edition of Recipes from Ireland. The Irish zest for food and drink is alive in this collection where even the food has a story to tell.

Joanne Asala of the Chicago, Illinois, area, has authored several books chronicling the folklore and traditions of various peoples. Inspiration for Irish recipes was piqued by a taste with local Irish-American friends. During travels in Ireland, she gathered recipes from cooks in small village cottages as well as the finest dining establishments. She found that many still cook in the manner of their ancestors.

David Wright's careful research has added 50 pages of fact and fun about the Irish people, their traditions and spirit. David, formerly of New York City, now lives in Decorah, Iowa, and comes from 300 years of Yankee stock, but discovered one ancestor who emigrated from Ireland to Ohio in the nineteenth century.

Patrick J. Costello's sense of space and form define places in the Irish tradition as seen in his cover photos and references throughout the book. Patrick and his wife Joan live in a restored grist mill in Maquoketa, Iowa, where they maintain an art gallery and studio. --Dorothy Crum --This text refers to an alternate Spiral-bound edition.

About the Author

Joanne Asala is the author and editor of about 20 books on folk tales and traditional customs, including "Whistling Jigs to the Moon: Tales of Irish and Scottish Pipers" and "Legends of Irish Saints and Sinners." Born and raised in Chicago, home to one of the country's largest Irish-American populations, Asala's love of Celtic lore has taken her on numerous trips to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, where many of the recipes in this book were gathered from people who still cook like their ancestors. --This text refers to an alternate Spiral-bound edition.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 160 pages
• Publisher: Penfield Pr (July 1995)
• ISBN-10: 1572160179
• ISBN-13: 978-1572160170
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,943,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple and Tasty, November 4, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Recipes from Ireland (Spiral-bound)

For this collection, Joanne Asala gathered recipes from dishes served at hotels, bed and breakfasts and restaurants in Ireland. Other recipes are for dishes she sampled in homes of Irish Americans.

The dishes are simple and tasty, Asala says, and reflect "the quality of their ingredients-fresh meat and seafood, rich milk and cream, fruit, vegetables and wonderful wholesome bread." Irish whiskey is a favorite ingredient. It is used in drinks such as the traditional Irish coffee and milk punch, and in other recipes, including one for Christmas cookies. Oatmeal is another favorite, appearing in recipes for beverages, leek and oatmeal soup and almond pudding.

Naturally, a collection of Irish recipes must include recipes for potatoes, the diet of about 8 million peasants during the Great Famine of 1845-1849. You'll find recipes for potato pancakes, potato casseroles and even a chocolate-potato layer cake.

Also included are recipes for such Irish fare as brown soda bread, molasses bread, marmalade loaf, shrimp and cheese chowder, kidney soup, pigs' feet, rabbit pie and, of course, corned beef and cabbage and Irish stew.

Editor William Cotter Murray has added comments about his homeland. Murray, who came to the Iowa Writers' Workshop in the 1950s and taught at the University of Iowa until his retirement, has explored his Irish roots in fiction, poetry and plays.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Recipes from Ireland (Spiral-bound)

As I am an amatuer cook, I was delighted to be able to use "Recipes from Ireland". My wife thinks I have been taking cooking lessons on the side.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Take it with you anywhere!, March 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Recipes from Ireland (Spiral-bound)

A terrific, pocket-sized Irish cookbook that you can take with you anywhere. Dozens of tasty recipes you can use for St. Patrick's Day! If you're looking for that special dish you mother used to make, you'll find it here. Asala has done a number of books on Celtic themes, including a large format cookbook "Celtic Folklore Cooking" and another, "Irish Saints and Sinners," which is unfortunately out of print. Her books never fail to please!