With ten years under his belt as a TV host and award winning food writer, Donal Skehan provides his audience with do-able meals that anyone can master. A dad of two, Donal knows a thing or two about juggling parenthood, work and cooking!
Donal has released 10 cookbooks, with his most recent, Everyday Cook, having won Ireland’s cookbook of the year in 2021 and reached No. 6 in the Amazon UK book charts.
Donal’s numerous television series have aired in over 40 countries worldwide and his profile continues to grow. Donal has filmed hit TV series on BBC, Food Network, RTE & FOX. More recently, Donal starred alongside Rosana Pansino on HBO Max’ Baketopia.
He is a regular host on Saturday Kitchen on BBC One in the UK as well as hosting regular cooking slots on ITV’s This Morning, NBC’s TODAY, Rachael Ray Show and Home & Family on Hallmark Channel in the US.
Donal’s YouTube channel is the fastest growing Irish food channel in the world with over 45 million views and over 1 million subscribers! The channel is entirely managed by Donal and focuses on promoting accessible home cooking to a dedicated audience of almost a million food fans.
Dublin native, Donal is currently residing in Howth with his family after living in Los Angeles for four years.
Donal's YouTube channel is the fastest growing Irish food
Irish food
Representative dishes include Irish stew, bacon and cabbage, boxty, brown bread (as it is referred to in the South) or soda bread (predominantly used in Ulster), coddle, and colcannon.
channel in the world with over 45 million views and over 1 million subscribers! The channel is entirely managed by Donal and focuses on promoting accessible home cooking to a dedicated audience of almost a million food fans.
Unlike almost every other TV chef, Donal has had no formal training but that hasn't stopped him from writing an award-winning blog and two very successful cook books.
Donal's Meals in Minutes is all about real, honest, fast food made with simple ingredients and clever cooking methods that are the building blocks for delicious home-cooked suppers. These recipes require minimum equipment and ingredients to deliver speedy suppers, ready to serve straight to the table!
After earning a vocational diploma in hotel management from North Oxon Technical College in 1987, he moved to London and began honing his culinary skills under chef Marco Pierre White at the restaurant Harvey's and under chef Albert Roux at La Gavroche.
Xavier Marcel Boulestin (1878–1943) was the first television chef proper. Boulestin hosted the BBC's earliest cooking series, Cook's Night Out, in 1937.
Donal replied, “I've been dying my hair since I was 23. I remember seeing my first grey really young and I remember just around the time our first [child] Noah was born [I was] sitting on the loo waiting for the dye to turn going, this is really tragic… This really needs to stop.”
Donal Skehan grew up in Howth, Co.Dublin. Born in 1986, to a family of food lovers, at the age of four he flipped his first pancake and been in the kitchen since!
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver demonstrates that his core belief that cooking for oneself using fresh ingredients is the easiest way to maintain a balanced diet doesn't have to be time-consuming by preparing fun and flavorful 15-minute meals in real time.
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