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Visit out FREE RECIPES category. New recipes added.

Updated with more content. Now approx. 170 pages.

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.

Review by
-Dorothy Crum

Compiled by Joanne Asala
Authentic recipes from great cooks in Ireland and from Irish Americans. Features charming facts and lore. Recipes include hot mulled ale, scones, cheese toast, fish soup, baked onions, oyster souffle, traditional spiced beef, and baked almond pudding.
Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 170 pages. ISBN 1932043624

By O. E. Rolvaag
An Irish Catholic and Norwegian Lutheran fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and a family bickering. When political antagonism grows between the Norwegian and Irish immigrant communities, it threatens their marriage.
Perfect bound, 5 1/4 x 8", 338 pages. ISBN 0-837170-68-0