Kevin Dundon Irish recipes

Kevin Dundon
Kevin Dundon is an award-winning Irish chef, television personality and author, known for featuring on television series such as Guerrilla Gourmet and Heat. He is the author of the book, Full On Irish: Contemporary Creative Cooking and his recipes have been featured in publications such as the Sunday Tribune and Weekend magazine in the Irish Independent. He has also cooked for both a queen and both an Irish and a US President.

Kevin Dundon is the owner of Dunbrody Country House Hotel, in County Wexford, which also houses the Dunbrody Cookery School, the "signature chef" of an "Irish gastropub" located in Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and the "face" of Las Vegas's Nine Fine Irishmen New York-New York Hotel located restaurant. He has appeared many times on both Irish, British, Canadian and American television, including The Afternoon Show on RTÉ One, BBC One's Saturday Kitchen, UKTV's Great Food Live, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, ESPN Cable and CBS's The Saturday Early Show

Kevin Dundon Career
Kevin Dundon was born in Dublin. He worked on a scholarship in Switzerland after finishing school and completing a course at Dublin College of Catering, graduating in 1986. He began his career by working in The Old Schoolhouse, a restaurant in Dublin. He then had a job cooking on a cruise liner in the Caribbean before furthering his career by spending eight years at the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts in Canada, at the age of twenty-two becoming the youngest ever executive head chef in the company's history. Dundon returned to Ireland in 1994 and was named the executive chef at Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel. He opened Dunbrody at the age of thirty, four years after this.

Kevin Dundon Recent career
In May 2005, Dundon opened the Raglan Road Irish gastropub in Disney World, Florida.
In 2006, Dundon published Full On Irish: Contemporary Creative Cooking, his first cookery book. He began to feature regularly on The Afternoon Show.
On 17 March 2007, he featured on CBS's The Saturday Early Show.
In February 2008, Dundon featured in the first episode of Guerrilla Gourmet, a television series which had six professional chefs attempt to set up their own temporary restauarnt in an unusual location. He established his restaurant in Saint Saviour's Boxing Club in Ballybeg in the middle of Waterford. Four of the fifty members of the boxing club prepare the food, including pigeon and tomato and poitín soup, in the temporary kitchen.
In March 2008, he opened his second American restaurant in Kansas City.
In July 2008, the reality television series, Heat, was launched. Two series of the programme have been produced, with Dundon taking on rival chef Kevin Thornton in each. He was Heat Champion in the first series but lost the second series to Thornton.
In April 2009, he helped launch the outdoor Taste of Dublin festival alongside fellow chef Thornton. Dundon also demonstrated his cookery skills at Dungarvan Town Hall in County Waterford as part of the second annual Waterford Festival of Food in April 2009.

Kevin Dundon Celebrity clients
Dunbrody has been visited by U2 frontman Bono, President of Ireland Mary McAleese and BBC television personality and actor Graham Norton. Dundon has also cooked for monarchs and presidents, including British Queen Elizabeth and former US President, George W. Bush.

Kevin Dundon Awards
Dunbrody has been awarded Restaurant of the Year three times and in a row, in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

Irish celebrity chef Kevin Dundon shares the recipes he cooks at home and shows how easy it is to eat good food every day. Do you have a kitchen full of hungry kids? Expectant guests sat round the dining table? Perhaps you need a hearty pick-me-up or a quick and comforting supper at the end of a long day. Kevin knows that the best home cooked food is straightforward and satisfying but certainly never boring. He gathers together classic dishes and creative twists to give a delicious collection of recipes for all types of occasion. Full of bold flavours and fresh, seasonal ingredients, these confident recipes are guaranteed to become firm family favourites. Kevin also shows how to get a second outing from your efforts, with clever ways to turn leftovers into a whole new meal. Whether you're a beginner in the kitchen or an experienced cook, these are reliable recipes you'll return to again and again. Recipes Include: Roasted Root Vegetable, Chilli and Pumpkin Soup Traditional Beef Casserole with Herb Dumplings Pan fried Trout with Toasted Almonds Savoury Bread and Butter Pudding Pot Roasted Pork with Apples Chicken and Broccoli Taglitelle Summer Berry Pudding Treacle Tart Chapter breakdown: One Pot Wonders, Quick & Easy Suppers, Roasts & Family Meals, Leftovers, Accompaniments, Desserts

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