I’ve had the pleasure of communicating food and drink for decades. With a Norwegian mother and Caribbean father, dinner on our table was vastly different compared with my friends growing up in Cornwall. My parents opened their first health food shop in the year 2000. We were all hands on in this family business. In a bid to introduce our community to all the unknown speciality food that we sold, I introduced ‘Try-day Friday’ and would cook legumes, pulses and the full spectrum of spices in delicious ways to show customers how to enjoy these foods. I’d print out the recipe for them to try at home. Creating recipes has always been intuitive, probably due to my upbringing absorbing every cookery programme, magazine and book I could get my hands on. I’ve always been in the food industry. I had the pleasure of working with Paul Ainsworth, which was a very special time in Padstow, then I worked at River Cottage - part of which involved consulting restaurant launches across Europe. I assisted Michael Caines on launching Lympstone Manor.
Nowadays, I freelance at RAW PR, handling PR for food clients, as well as ghost writing recipes, food styling and copywriting. I write a monthly food column for Exeter Living, I write recipes and style shoots for my food photographer husband and I run workshops at Exeter University.
