My working life has followed my passion – food. I’m currently deep in research for a book on What we ate in the 1970s – and why.
When I took Domestic Science A at school, my headmistress said it would never help me get a job. How wrong she was.
It led to 20 years teaching food education, writing textbooks for GCSE Food and Nutrition, becoming a chief examiner and working on O level, GCSE and A level exams.
My company, Ridgwell Press produced food and textiles resources and trained teachers around the country.
My online Nutrition Program is used by thousands of students around the world to analyse recipes, diets and meals.
I Taught Them To Cook is a memoir of teaching cooking in an East London comprehensive in the 1970s.
Cream Horns and Vol au Vents is a follow-up story of my teaching – readers wanted to know what happened next.
Some of the 70 books that I’ve written
My first book was Finding Out About Food written in 1980 which sold 120,000 copies. My publisher and myself were amazed.
That leaves 61 more!
