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Clodagh McKenna trained as a chef at Ballymaloe Cookery School and then went on to work as a chef in Ballymaloe House for 3 years and left the kitchen to set up her own stall at a local market as well as developing other farmers markets around Ireland. She has her own weekly column for the Irish Examiner, fortnightly column for The Mail on Sunday, and a monthly column for Food and Wine magazine.
Clodagh has also a written for the Irish Times, The Sunday Tribune, Aer Lingus Magazine, Delicious Magazine and she is also the editor of the Slow Food Ireland Guide to Producers. She also lectures at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Colorno (Italy).Clodagh has appeared as a cook and promoter of local produce on RTE's, Out of The Blue; Rick Stein's Food Heroes, (BBC2); TV3's Ireland AM Show; Saturday Cooks (ITV), Saturday Kitchen (BBC1), The Today Show (NBC in USA), RTE's The Afternoon Show and is a regular chef presenter for UKTV's Market Kitchen and BBC’s Food Poker. Her first book The Irish Farmers' Market Cookbook was published by Harper Collins in November 2006 and she has filmed a TV series to accompany the book which is titled Fresh from the Farmers Markets which aired on RTE 1 earlier this year.
Clodagh is currently writing her second book on her travels to producers around Europe and has just finished filming the second series of ‘Fresh from the Farmers Markets’ for RTE1. Clodagh is very proud to be working on a project with SuperValu supermarkets in Ireland to develop and promote their local artisan producers. She is also the Spokesperson for AGA Ireland.