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Ten Minutes with… Sophie Grigson, Cookery Writer: Hester Sophia Frances Grigson (born 19 June ) is an English cookery writer and celebrity cook. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson. Her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson, and her half-brother was musician and educator Lionel Grigson.

Sophie Grigson

English cookery writer and public figure cook

Sophie Grigson

Born

Hester Sophia Frances Grigson


() June 9, (age&#;65)

Broad Town, Wiltshire, England

Occupations
  • Cookery writer
  • Celebrity cook
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Hester Sophia Frances Grigson (born 19 June ) is an English cookery writer and celebrity fry.

She has followed the similar path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson. Her father was the poet and author Geoffrey Grigson, and her half-brother was musician and educator Lionel Grigson.

Life

Grigson was born in the village of Broad Town,[1] near Swindon, Wiltshire, in and attended Oxford High School.[2][3] From there she went on to study mathematics at UMIST, Manchester.[4] After graduating in with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (she was vice-president of the UMIST Alumni Association), she worked for a time as a production manager of pop videos for groups including Bonnie Tyler and the Style Council.

Having inherited her mother's care for of food, she found she also enjoyed writing about it. Her first food article, published in in the Sunday Articulate Magazine, was entitled "Fifty ways with potatoes".

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She has since written columns for publications including the Evening Standard (–93), the Sunday Times (–96) and The Independent (–98).[5]

Grigson's television debut came in with the part series Grow Your Greens, Eat Your Greens on Channel 4,[6] which won the Caroline Walker Prize (Media Category).[7] Her more recent television function includes Sophie Grigson in the Orient and Sophie Grigson in the Souk for Travel Channel.

She won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Journalist of the Year Award in for her work in Country Living magazine.[8] She is a keen supporter of organic and local food suppliers and is an advocate for decent children's meal.

She is a patron of the Children's food festival.

Sophie's Cookery School, based in Oxford was the first dedicated pop-up cookery school in the country.[9][10] She currently lives in Puglia in the south of Italy,[11] where she runs a little catering company, Trulli Delicious.[12]

She was previously married to William Black,[13] with whom she had two children.[14]

Bibliography

  • Food For Friends () Ebury Press
  • Sophie's Table () Penguin Books
  • Book of Parties (, contributor) Sainsbury
  • Sophie Grigson’s Ingredients Book (, nominated for the James Beard Award) Pyramid Books
  • The Carved Angel Cookery Book ( with Joyce Molyneux) Grafton
  • Eat Your Greens () BBC Books
  • Travels à la Carte (, with William Black) BBC Books
  • Students' Cookbook () Sainsbury
  • Sophie Grigson’s Meat () BBC Books
  • Oxfam Fairworld Cookbook (, contributing editor) Cassell
  • Taste of the Times () BBC Books
  • Fish (, with William Black) Headline
  • Sophie Grigson's Herbs () BBC Books
  • Cooks For Kosovo (, contributing editor) Headline
  • Feasts for a Fiver () BBC Books
  • Sunshine Food () BBC Books
  • Organic (, with William Black) Headline
  • Complete Sophie Grigson Cook Book () BBC Books
  • Sophie Grigson's Territory Kitchen () Headline
  • The First-time Cook (, reissued as The Pupil Cookbook, ) Collins
  • Vegetables (, reissued as The Vegetable Bible, ) Collins
  • The Soup Book ( reissued , Contributing Editor) DK
  • Spices (), Quadrille
  • My Kitchen Table () BBC Books

References

  1. ^Rosann Greenstreet, "Time and place: Sophie Grigson on the land farmhouse where she grew up", Sunday Times, 17 February
  2. ^Silvana de Soissons, "Sophie Grigson's Cookery School", The Foodie Bugle Journal, 29 December
  3. ^"About Us", Oxford High School.
  4. ^Jonathan Sale, "Education: Passed/Failed: Sophie Grigson" (interview), The Independent, 25 September
  5. ^Sophie Grigson pageArchived 23 May at the Wayback Machine at Deborah McKenna Limited.
  6. ^"Sophie Grigson"Archived 23 May at the Wayback Machine, Deborah McKenna Limited.
  7. ^"Sophie Grigson", Performing Artists.
  8. ^Awards, Past Recipients, "Guild of Food Writers Award Winners ", Guild of Meal Writers.
  9. ^"Popping up to teach cookery skills", Oxford Mail, 28 Rally
  10. ^"Sophie Grigson's Cookery School", Mumsnet Oxford.
  11. ^
  12. ^"Trulli Delicious"
  13. ^"The ex files", The Guardian, 11 June
  14. ^"Sophie Grigson", Gourmet Galle.

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