Lismore Castle. Food and Flowers from a Historic Irish Garden

Lady Laura Burlington, a driving force in farm-to-table philosophy, has cultivated a pastoral Eden in the Irish countryside at her family’s ancestral home. This beautiful cookbook celebrates Ireland’s remarkably rich food heritage and offers modern takes on some of its classic recipes.

In 1950, when Deborah Mitford became the 11th Duchess of Devonshire, with Chatsworth, Bolton Abbey, Hardwick Hall, and Lismore Castle to look after, she rolled up her sleeves and tackled debt with business acumen and redecoration with great flair, becoming perhaps the most memorable chatelaine of any English estate. In 1977 Deborah—controversially—opened her Chatsworth Farm Shop, which paved the way for fancy farm businesses like Daylesford and King Charles’s Highgrove Farm Shop. Now, with Lismore Castle, Laura Cavendish has taken on the mantle for a new generation, with her eco-mindedness and farm-to-table philosophy and, like her husband’s grandmother, fashioning a commercial opportunity but in her own style and for the 21st century. Her work at Lismore represents her first mission statement.

Published by Rizzoli
Hardcover
240 pages
279 x 216 mm
ISBN 9780847844173