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Good Food Show launch for Irish cookbook

Sligo doctor launches Seaweed bible at Birmingham show By Angela Sammon - 27/11/09

A new and very different cookery book written by a relatively unknown Irish writer is being launched at the ‘BBC Good Food Show’ in Birmingham this week.

‘Prannie Rhatigan’s Irish Seaweed Kitchen’ is by Sligo-born Dr Prannie Rhatigan, and is a comprehensive guide to healthy everyday cooking with seaweeds.

A full colour hardback with sections on Irish seaboard lore, recipes old and new, nutritional information and personal anecdotes combined with the faintest hint of nostalgia, the book is a mix of common sense and practical cookery.

Sourcing, identifying, preparing and storing seaweed for culinary use are all clearly explained, in addition to a collection of over 150 easy-to-follow recipes. Designed to facilitate seaweed users from novice to experienced, there is also a full seaweed index for ease of use and a chart outlining the nutritional properties of each seaweed.

Over 100 colour photographs and original line drawings represent the foods featured, and also give a glimpse of a unique west of Ireland lifestyle and landscape.

Richard Corrigan, Rick Stein, Noel McMeel and many other famous Chefs have contributed their own favourite recipes using different seaweeds. It is a book to cherish for its charming sense of time and place.

A medical doctor, Prannie Rhatigan has been harvesting and cooking with seaweed, and gardening organically since childhood, and she has a lifelong interest in the connections between food and health.

A member of Slow Food, she is widely travelled and regularly gives workshops and lectures on seaweeds and cooking. She lives with her husband and daughter on the idyllic coastline of Streedagh, Co Sligo in the north west of Ireland.

The cookbook can be purchased from www.prannie.com or www.amazon.co.uk at a special launch price of £22.50 until 8th December 2009, after which it will cost €35 or sterling equivalent.