Harry Hook

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. Paul Ainsworth asked me to join him as his PR director, which was a wonderful few years 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 lecture at Exeter University. I adore this industry and would love to become a member of the Guild.

Professions

Copywriter, Editor/editorial work, Food stylist, Ghost writer, Recipe writer

Advisory boards / Awards

WSET l2

Languages spoken

Just English

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