Myrtle Allen Lecture
One of the world’s leading experts on gut health will give a free public lecture in University College Cork at the annual Adult Continuing Education’s Myrtle Allen Memorial Lecture.
This lecture celebrates the legacy of Myrtle Allen and her contribution to Irish food culture. On Saturday, May 9th, 1964, Myrtle opened the Yeats Room Restaurant in her home in Ballymaloe in East Cork. From that time onward, the space, named after the Allens’ collection of Jack B. Yeats paintings that hung in the restaurant, would come to symbolise a remodelled food culture that valued what we now recognise as the vocabulary of sustainability: local, seasonal and regional foods with a tangible and meaningful connection to people and place.
Professor Jens Walter, one of the world’s leading experts on gut health, based at APC Microbiome Ireland - a world-leading research centre at UCC, will deliver the lecture on the subject “Can Food Be Both Tasty and Healthy? A Scientific Take on Myrtle Allen’s Food Philosophy”.
Professor Walter’s research focuses on nutrition and gut health in traditional societies where the consumption of processed and industrially produced foods is typically very limited. Jens will align his recent research findings with the food philosophy of Myrtle Allen.
The lecture occurs this evening (Tuesday, 27th May) from 6.00 to 7.15 pm in the Hub in University College Cork.
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