Authoress wrote the historic information for Complete Book of Irish Country Cooking: Traditional and Wholesome Recipes from Ireland by Darina Allen, the founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Shanagarry, County Cork, Ireland. Ms. Sexton was a graduate student at the time. This book is her own work. She has studied the changes in Irish diet that resulted from the Norman-Anglo invasion.

A tie-in to an RTE tv series about Irish food it goes through the different foods by theme, talking about when they came to the country and doing updated recipies along with quotes about different foods along the way. ( )