Sligo chef shares her skills in new school of cookery

A brand new dedicated cookery school opened last weekend in the St Georges Terrace Restaurant in Carrick on Shannon.

Owners Siobhan Smyth from Dromard Sligo and Dave Fitzgibbon said: “We are delighted to have this exciting new addition to our business. We have a very loyal customer base after just 18 months in business and we look forward to welcoming them and lots of new foodies to the area.

“Cooking has never been so fashionable. Cookery programmes dominate our screens and food bloggers abound on social media. Young couples and newly- weds, were brought up in a generation of working mothers, and many , even in rural areas did not get the chance to learn the basic cooking skills at the kitchen table that so many of the kids of the 80s and 90s did. Combine this with the focus on good quality Irish food produce, the need for healthy eating and the increase in home entertaining and an entire cookery school industry is born.”

Dave Fitzgibbon added: “The cookery school is located in the site of the original kitchen of the old Victorian house. All classes will be given by myself. This is a cookery school where you will learn by cooking yourself not by demonstration. We want the classes to be fun yet informative.

Siobhan added: “My parents had The Fiddlers Elbow Pub for almost thirty years, so I come from a background in the hospitality industry. This is a new departure for the area and will serve to help tourism too.”