Rose & Dominic Prince

In the words of Rose Prince...

So, that is how it began. I wasn’t a great radio reporter – the machinery continued to terrify me - but the experiences I had working for Sheila were essential. The Food Programme was the only place in the media that was truly forensic when it came to food. Its approach then is now my mantra: have a go at the bad, and celebrate the good.

But I wanted to write. I read a lot and the good food writing I pored over gave me an appetite for it equal to the desire to cook and eat the food it so lyrically described. Rosie Boycott, then the editor of the Independent on Sunday, gave me my first real break asking me to write 4000 words on the food writer Elizabeth David. That was the start, and after ten years I feel just hugely lucky.
Publishing my first book in 2005 was the next great step. I was approached by Louise Haines from Fourth Estate in 2002. She had been tipped off by Nigel Slater that there was a column in the Daily Express of all places that covered food issues. She took me through the whole process of writing what was a difficult book with true patience and stern direction. She made me re-write, correct, check, test recipes, check, correct, re-write. She is a remarkable editor and when the book began to sell I can not express how good and rewarding it felt. The New English Kitchen: Changing the way you Shop, Cook and Eat has gone into four reprints, and now is in paperback. Since then I have published The Savvy Shopper (Fourth Estate, 2006), The New English Table: Over 200 Recipes That Will Not Cost The Earth (Fourth Estate, 2008) and The Good Food Producers Guide (Hardie Grant, 2009) – an updated edition of the Guide is under construction and will be published in 2011. The newest addition, Kitchenella was published by Fourth Estate in September 2010. 
 

Visit the main demo stage at 11am on Sunday 8th September and watch Rose and Dominic Prince demonstrate how to bake. Make a donation to the RNLI and you will be the lucky person that gets to indulge in some of their dishes!