{"id":171223,"date":"2025-11-09T10:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171223\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:20:15","slug":"my-favourite-room-bree-allen-of-ballymaloe-grainstore-in-cork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171223\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite room: Bree Allen of Ballymaloe Grainstore in Cork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nBree Allen arrived at Ballymaloe for a three-month stopover. Just over 20 years later, she\u2019s part of the fabric of this magical place with three children, a busy job involving the Grainstore and a stunning home\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Events manager Bree Allen in one of the two conservatories which flank each end of the house; the kitchen\/dining\/living room is sandwiched between the two. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/SN TG BREE ALLEN 5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Events manager Bree Allen in one of the two conservatories which flank each end of the house; the kitchen\/dining\/living room is sandwiched between the two. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As well as lots of stunning Irish-crafted furnishings, Bree Allen\u2019s home in East Cork is noteworthy for the amount of surfaces on which to eat, in and around the welcoming kitchen\/dining\/living room. There\u2019s also different types of cooking appliances \u2013 gas, electric and induction hobs, a Gaggenau oven and an AGA, and that\u2019s to be expected. The Allens of Ballymaloe are noted for their food and hospitality and Bree, who became an Allen when she married Cullen Allen of Cully &amp; Sully soups, is no exception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The day these photos were taken, she was making a giant pot of soup for her son\u2019s friends and like her husband, she makes a mean soup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bree Allen arrived at Ballymaloe for a three-month stopover. Just over 20 years later, she\u2019s part of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4746,4850],"class_list":{"0":"post-171223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-mary-osullivan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115519240780270120","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}