At the ripe young age of 27, after two years in a pop band and eight years in his food career, Donal Skehan hit a wall. Or rather, at that moment—feeling overworked, in the humid heat at a food market in Hanoi, Vietnam—he found a wall to hold himself up, to keep from falling.
For years, he'd been burning the candle at both ends. The experience in Vietnam landed him in a hospital, where he had time to take stock of his situation, and what landed him there.
An Irish food writer, photographer, and TV presenter, Skehan, now 30, is a relatively new face to American television viewers, as the co-host of “Food Network Star Kids” with actress Tia Mowry. But he is already well-known on the other side of the pond.
Since he started a food blog, his career has been one nonstop adventure fueled by nonstop work—much of which has taken him to different corners of the globe to film television shows. He has won over nonnas in Italy with his tiramisu; tried snails in Vietnam; and traveled to Sweden, north of the Arctic Circle, to make Christmas rice pudding.
