My Homeplace Inheritance, Recipes for life from my Irish country childhood - Softcover

Susan Farrell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780732627 ISBN 13: 9781780732626

Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

Susan Farrell's evocative account of what it was like to grow up in rural Armagh and Tyrone, a world rooted in tradition and in the seasons. Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food to trace the legacy of her upbringing: Nanny Wylie, 'quick as a magician', making bread; her aunts cycling twenty miles to the Irish border to buy butter, dried fruit and sugar for her parents' wedding cake; food remedies and broths; and the endless supply of home-made apple pies, jam and soda farls. But by the late sixties this way of life is changing - Camp Coffee, salad cream and books like Madhur Jaffrey's 'Eastern Vegetarian Cooking' herald a new way of life and a new kind of cooking. And on the horizon is the shadow of the Troubles Warm, authentic and often funny, 'My Homeplace Inheritance' is a vivid evocation of place and a celebration of the rich legacy that comes from the cooking and sharing of food.

About this title

About the Author

Susan Farrell was born and brought up in Portadown, County Armagh. Much of her childhood was spent living beside the River Blackwater and she currently lives in Rostrevor in County Down. She ran the Rainbow Café as a vegetarian enterprise at a time when the only place to get sunflower seeds in Belfast was at the pet shop. My Homeplace Inheritance is her first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1780732627
• ISBN 13: 9781780732626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176