Destiny led me to the Cotswolds, my husband and son, working at the University of Bath and Lydiard House, while studying for my HND in Heritage Conservation. I started to collect seriously and began working as a freelance public Food Historian, with television appearances, radio, talks & demos and the creation of 13 books. Today I am a Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, an online Archaeology tutor, writer, speaker and Curator of my own little collection of antique kitchenalia.
Having initially consumed myself as a child with the theatre and literature,gaining places on several drama degree courses, as well as drama schools, I also began a slightly manic working life as a sort of sous chef, at the now defunct, but then extremely successful Good Food Guide Billy Budd’s Bistro in Dartmouth, Devon. Here I cut my teeth in cooking, cleaning, and front of house restaurant work over a period of about 7 or 8 years from the impressionable age of 13. As a much older teenager this became something I did in between living and working in the pub trade in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Destiny led me to the Cotswolds, my husband and son, working at the University of Bath and Lydiard House, while studying for my HND in Heritage Conservation. I started to collect seriously and began working as a freelance public Food Historian, with television appearances, radio, talks & demos and the creation of 13 books. Today I am a Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, an online Archaeology tutor, writer, speaker and Curator of my own little collection of antique kitchenalia.