Skehan brings 'HomeCooked' to Ramor
Young Dublin television chef Donal Skehan is in Virginia this week as part of his ‘The Homecooked Tour’ in which he is travelling to various venues across the country during the month of November.
He will be in the Ramor Theatre, where he will cook up delicious meals live on stage. On his ‘HomeCooked Tour’, he will demonstrate a selection of recipes at each venue and the audience get to take away copies of the recipies. And can say hello to Donal in person!
It has been an amazing year for Donal Skehan from cooking with Jamie Oliver to his role on the highly successful BBC Junior MasterChef.
Donal’s new book HomeCooked will be released to coincide with the tour backed up by a series of online videos and full media campaign. He will be Joining UK MasterChef judge John Torode for the second series of the highly successful Junior MasterChef on BBC One which is confirmed for 2014. The new series of ‘Kitchen Hero’ will be back on our screens on November 6th.
This year Donal’s online series, Simple Suppers, began airing on Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube, exposing him to Jamie’s 6.5 million online following. After cooking alongside Jamie in London, he is now in talks to become a YouTube partner with Jamie and will launch his own YouTube channel.
For the last month Donal has been travelling across Italy recording a new cookery series called ‘Grandma’s Boy’ where he visits Italian grannies and they teach him their classic recipes. In Donal’s words: “It’s been great craic altogether and the grandmothers are brilliant!” It will broadcast across the FOX network worldwide in 2014.
His newly launched online quarterly food magazine ‘FEAST! A Dinner Journal’, has been read by over one million people worldwide since the release of its first issue in May. This 25 year old food writer and television presenter has written three cookbooks. He has presented two 14 part primetime Irish TV cookery programmes which have also been broadcast in the UK, France and Brazil. And his books have been translated into both German and Swedish. In March 2012 he was invited as a guest to appear on the Today Show on NBC and cooked up a storm! He won Best Irish Food Blog in 2010 and his book “Good Mood Food” beat off stiff competition at the highly respected Irish Book Awards and won the best Irish published book category. In October 2012 Donal was announced as the brand new presenter of BBC’s Junior MasterChef.
Tickets for ‘Donal Skehan – The homecooked tour’ on Friday 15th November at the Ramor Theatre, Virginia, are €20. Contact (049) 854 7074 / www.ramortheatre.ie