Darina Allen runs the world-renowned cookery school at Ballymaloe in Ireland and is the bestselling author of Ballymaloe Cookery Course. She campaigns for local produce, is a member of Slow Food Ireland and set up Ireland’s first farmers’ market. Through the East Cork Educational Fund, she runs a programme for local primary schools to help local children learn about food from garden to plate. She won the Guild of Food Writers’ Lifetime Achievement award in 2013.