Margaret M. Johnson

Margaret M. Johnson has been writing professionally since 1992 when Mustang (Memphis, TN) published her first book, Festival Europe: Fairs and Celebrations Throughout Europe. She later devoted her travel and writing efforts exclusively to her ancestral home, Ireland, and followed with two cookbooks published in Dublin-- Ireland: Grand Places, Glorious Food (1992) and Cooking With Irish Spirits (1995; 1998)--and five published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco--The Irish Heritage Cookbook (1998), The New Irish Table (2003), Irish Puddings, Tarts, Crumbles and Fools (2004), The Irish Pub Cookbook (2006), The Irish Spirit (2006), named as one of 20 noteworthy cookbooks for the holidays by nytimes.com (December 3, 2006). Tea & Crumpets, an afternoon tea cookbook, was published in May 2009. Most recently, Ambassador International has published Flavors of Ireland (2012), Christmas Flavors of Ireland (2013), Favorite Flavors of Ireland (2015), Teatime in Ireland (2019), and Festive Flavors of Ireland (2021). She lives in Westhampton Beach, NY. For more information, visit www.irishcook.com. She published her first Kindle Ebook, The Irish Spirit, in April 2012.