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while Chef Leigh might not yet be a legend, was a good thing, the perfect reason to re-
the meal was the best food I’d eaten in Ire- turn to Ireland, though I certainly don’t need
land. Fresh Donegal salmon, Kilkeel scallops, an excuse to go back to one of the most
foie gras, lamb so tender you could cut it beautiful and hospitable countries in the
with a spoon, and a tasting of local “Legen- world. I’m already planning a new trip for
derry” cheeses. I have never tasted a meal next year.
like this ever, not even when I lived in Paris. (Margie Goldsmith filled her heart with
We left Derry two days later and Ireland, and you can too, at https://www.
drove the Antrim Coastal route, one of the ireland.com)
most jaw-dropping drives in the world,
where everywhere, cliffs shoot down to the
sea below. As we returned the rental car and
headed to the gate, I remembered I still Chef Noel at his grandfather’s Our Lady of
hadn’t tasted Noel’s cheesecake. But this Lourdes Church. Opposite: Author with Henry,
the horse at Castle Leslie
