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The Kai Cookbook

Jess Murphy's West Coast cookbook for the ages.

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John and Sally McKenna
Sep 25, 2025
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Jess Murphy, Kai Restaurant

Jess Murphy’s book is a wild thing.

Wildly creative. Wildly in love with Galway and the West Coast of Ireland. Wildly imaginative. Wildly individual and idiosyncratic.

It’s one of the great books by a working chef, as precise and special as the books by Denis Cotter or Judy Rodgers, and just as funny as Paul Flynn.

We’d go furthe…

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