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Profile
Rachel
Allen was brought up in Dublin
and always loved cooking. She trained at the internationally reputed Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland,
where she still teaches.
Her philosophy on food is that good ingredients simply prepared will give great
results. Her food reflects the demands of her own lifestyle - busy working
mother entertaining at home producing simple food classics with her own
individual spin that comes from many years of working in an internationally
rated establishment.
Biography
In
September 2004 RTE, broadcast Rachel’s first series Rachel’s Favourite Food, which
was screened on BBC 2 each Saturday morning, and has also been seen in
Australia, Italy, Africa and elsewhere. Rachel’s
Favourite Food the book to accompany the series was published
by Gill & Macmillan. Rachel's follow up book and TV series were both
called Rachel’s Favourite Food for
Friends and were a huge success. Her third series, Rachel's Favourite Food At Home,
this time shown on BBC1, was another smash and the accompanying book, Rachel's Favourite Food at Home
(HarperCollins 2006) hit the top of the book charts. Her
fourth series, Rachel's Favourite Food
for Living was also shown on BBC 1, the accompanying book Rachel's Food For Living was again
published by Harper Collins.
The end of
2008 saw Rachel on our screens with Bake!
on UKTV, which enjoyed the highest ever ratings for a show on the channel. The
show was also shown on BBC 1 and RTE. The accompanying book, Bake! published was another best-seller.
They also published a beautiful Rachel
Allen Diary for 2009.
New for 2009, Rachel’s series, Rachel Allen: Home Cooking, was debuted on UKTV first and followed on BBC 1 and RTE. As the title
suggests, the series focused on the food that Rachel loves to make at home.
There was accompanying book of the same title, published by HarperCollins in
September 2009. Rachel’s next series will be aired in Autumn 2010 and will have
an accompanying tie-in book.
2010 has been a busy year for
Rachel already, as well as preparing to film her 7th solo series and
writing the tie-in book, Rachel’s books have been launched in the US and her series Rachel’s Favourite Food at
Home will be debuted in America
on PBS.
As well as having her own series, Rachel is a frequent guest on BBC 1’s
Saturday Kitchen, and is one of the lead presenters on UKTV’s and BBC 2’s Market
Kitchen.
2008 saw the launch of Rachel’s range of electrical products for Argos, including a compact
food processor and health grill. In addition to this, Rachel has launched a
tableware range with Tipperary Crystal.
Rachel has written for many Irish publications including 3 years on Irish
lifestyle magazine Image and now has a weekly column in The Irish Mail. She has
also contributed to BBC Good Food magazine and AWT At Home magazine.
Updated
13/04/2010
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