Career Path: Study in Paris > Learnt to Cook in London > Set up Business
“I will be filming for a new series of The Great British Menu, a hugely successful show that has now been going for four years."
My Story: Prue Leith learnt to eat as a student in Paris, she learnt to cook in London, and opted for the kitchen because she did not want to work in an office. Prue then fell in love with business and enterprise, and ended up running the Leith's group of companies (School of Food and Wine, Leith's Events and Parties and Leith's Restaurants) from an office. When she sold the business in 1993 Prue employed 500 people, her flagship restaurant had a Michelin star and she had won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year award, and been honored by the Queen with an O.B.E. Prue has been a food columnist for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, the Guardian and the Daily Mirror. She is currently a judge on the Great British Menu series on BBC2 and has written 12 cookbooks and five novels - often about cooks, caterers, restaurateurs and TV chefs. She says, “I like writing about food, especially when I’m hungry.”