Sophie Grigson
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Hester Sophia Frances Grigson June 19, 1959 is an English cookery writer and celebrity chef known as Sophie Grigson.She has followed the same path and career of her mother, Jane Grigson.Her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson. She went to Oxford High School as a girl.
Grigson was born in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1959. After graduating in 1982 with a B.Sc. in mathematics from UMIST University in Manchester (where she is currently Vice President of the Alumni Association), she worked for a time as a production manager of pop videos for groups including Bonnie Tyler and Style Council. Having inherited her mother's love of food, she found she also enjoyed writing about it. Her first food article, published in 1983 in the Sunday Express Magazine, was entitled "Fifty ways with potatoes". She has since written columns for the Evening Standard, The Independent, and The Sunday Times. Her television debut came in 1993 with a twelve-part series "Grow Your Greens, Eat Your Greens" on Channel 4.
She has written a number of best-selling books including:
- Gourmet Ingredients (1991, nominated for the James Beard Award, published by Van Nostrand Reinhold)
- Eat your greens (1993)
- Travels a La Carte (1994, written with William Black)
- Fish (1998, written with William Black)
- Sophie Grigson's Herbs (1999)
- Organic (2001, written with William Black)
- Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen (2003)
- The First-time Cook (2004)
Published in October 2006 is her latest book, Vegetables (Collins; ISBN 0-00-721377-8)
She won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Journalist Award 2001.
She is a keen supporter of organic and local food suppliers and, like Jamie Oliver, is an advocate for decent children's food.
She is a patron of the Children's food festival.
