Sophie Grigson

Sophie Grigson is a cook, food writer and television presenter with over 20 books to her name and nine television series for BBC, Channel 4 and UKTV Food, as well as several more for the Travel Channel. She has also written columns and articles for the Evening Standard, Independent, Sunday Times, Country Living, BBC Good Food and Waitrose Food Illustrated. On impulse, after interviewing the late Russell Norman about his book, Venice, in 2019 she sold or gave away the majority of her belongings and packed herself into her purple car to move to Puglia in the south of Italy. Home is now the small town of Ceglie Messapica. Since making the town of Ceglie Messapica her home, she has filmed two series of Sophie Grigson – Slice of Italy for Discovery/Food Network and started her catering business, Trulli Delicious.