Jenny Bristow

Jenny Bristow is a Northern Irish cook and cookery writer. She is best known for her cookery television series produced by UTV. Bristow was brought up on her family's dairy farm near Coleraine. Before her broadcasting career, Bristow worked as a home economics teacher. She has three children. Bristow made her first television appearance on Ulster Television's Farming Ulster in 1989 demonstrating how to cook with potatoes, which led a producer at ... more

Jenny Bristow is a Northern Irish cook and cookery writer. She is best known for her cookery television series produced by UTV. Bristow was brought up on her family's dairy farm near Coleraine. Before her broadcasting career, Bristow worked as a home economics teacher. She has three children. Bristow made her first television appearance on Ulster Television's Farming Ulster in 1989 demonstrating how to cook with potatoes, which led a producer at the station to offer Bristow her own series. All of the above series were produced by UTV, and were filmed in a converted barn at Bristow's farm near Cullybackey. Bristow's series have been transmitted in other ITV regions (Border, Central, Grampian, Granada and LWT, and on television stations in the United States and Australia. Ratings for Bristow's series have peaked at 215,000 viewers in Northern Ireland. Bristow has so far published twelve cookery books. Books accompanying Bristow's most recent series have been published by Belfast-based... less