found: Her The Ballymaloe cookbook, 1977:t.p. (Myrtle Allen) jkt. (b. 1924 in Cork City, Ir.)
found: Amazon website, Feb. 27, 2013(Myrtle Allen was born in Cork in 1924. She and her husband bought Ballymaloe in 1948, and there she began her varied life of farmer's wife, mother, writer, hotelier, hostess, teacher and of course, chef.)
found: Wikipedia, Feb. 27, 2013(Myrtle Allen (born 1924, Tivoli, Cork, County Cork) is an Irish Michelin star winning head chef and co-owner of the restaurant The Yeats Room of Ballymaloe House in Shanagarry, County Cork. Besides her cooking duties, she has also been a writer, hotelier and teacher. In 1962, she was cookery correspondent with the Irish Farmers Journal)
found: New York times WWW site, viewed June 19, 2018(in obituary published June 18: Myrtle Allen; b. Gladys Myrtle Hill, Mar. 12, 1924, Tivoli, a suburb of Cork; m. Ivan Allen (d. 1998); d. Wednesday [June 13, 2018], Wilton, a suburb of Cork, aged 94; defined the modern era of Irish cooking by using a bounty of locally sourced ingredients at Ballymaloe House, the renowned restaurant she created in her Georgian country home in the 1960s)
