Six at the Table by Sheila Maher

Six at the Table by Sheila Maher

In Six at the Table, regular contributor to RTÉ Sunday Miscellany Sheila Maher tells the story of her childhood through meals shared around the kitchen table – and occasionally from the boot of the car on long family trips – and celebrates the central role that the food lovingly prepared by her mother played in her younger years. Exotic Lilt and exploding Moondust have their thrills, but it is her mother’s Sunday roasts, steak and kidney pies and home-made Jaffa cakes that create the regular and comforting rhythm of Sheila’s life and of the rest of her boisterous family. From sliced egg and cold ham salad on summer days to the milk puddings that mark the passage of the winter weeks, packets of Tayto, Campbell meatballs and the fascination with Sodastream, Six at the Table is a nostalgic journey through an Irish childhood in the 1970s, when uniforms were itchy, porridge stuck to your ribs, and Cidona felt like the height of sophistication.

[Sheila Maher] delivers a vivid memoir that becomes a carbon-dating record of the Irish family through their food habits of the 1970s

How nice it is to have a positive view of the past.

enchanting and strangely compelling

a tasty little read

Sheila Maher was born in Dublin in 1970, educated at her local convent school and went on to become a lecturer in Marketing at Dun Laoghaire Vocational Education Community. Over 20of Sheila's pieces have been broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1’s Sunday Miscellany, which attracts 220,000 listeners each week. Sheila lives in Dublin with her husband Diarmaid Ferriter and their three children. Six at the Table is Sheila's first book.

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ISBN 13	9780856408694
ISBN 10	0856408697
Title	Six at the Table
Author	Sheila Maher
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Colourpoint Creative Ltd
Year published	2011-08-16
Number of pages	216
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.