Hester Sophia Frances Grigson (born 19 June 1959} is an English cookery writer and celebrity chef known as Sophie Grigson. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson: her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson.
Grigson was born in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1959 and attended Oxford High School. From there she went on to study mathematics at UMIST, Manchester. After graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degre...
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Hester Sophia Frances Grigson (born 19 June 1959} is an English cookery writer and celebrity chef known as Sophie Grigson. She has followed the same path and career as her mother, Jane Grigson: her father was the poet and writer Geoffrey Grigson.
Grigson was born in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1959 and attended Oxford High School. From there she went on to study mathematics at UMIST, Manchester. After graduating in 1982 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 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.
Grigson' television debut came in 1993 with the twelve-part...
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