in conversation
with
Dame Prue Leith
Hosted in our Adam Hall
Wednesday 4 December 2024Bake Off judge and national treasure, Dame Prue Leith chats with broadcaster Satnam Rana.
Join Prue at Compton Verney to hear about her lifelong love of the arts and her new book, Life’s Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom.
Add some festive sparkle to your day and book a Festive Afternoon Tea for after the talk.
prices and information
Members – £15
Non-members – £33
About Prue…
Prue Leith’s career has included her own restaurants, catering and cookery school businesses; she’s been a board director of companies such as British Rail, Halifax, Safeway, Whitbread, Woolworths, and Belmond (ex-Orient Express) Hotels.
She has published eight novels, a memoir, I’ll Do Anything Once (formerly, Relish) and 14 cookbooks. Her latest cookbook, Bliss on Toast, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022.
Prue is probably best known as a judge on the Great British Bake Off, but last year she also presented a gardening programme, Prue’s Great Garden Plot with her husband, and this year will judge the American equivalent of Bake Off. She has also been a judge on The Great British Menu and My Kitchen Rules. Prue has her own TV show, Prue Leith’s Cotswold Kitchen with a second series coming in 2025.
Prue has had a deep involvement with education and the arts: she chaired the first of the companies charged with turning round failing state schools, and was Chair of the School Food Trust, responsible for the improvement of school food and food education. She started and led the campaign for contemporary sculpture to be exhibited on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. She has been active in many charities and is the Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She was an advisor for the Government’s Hospital Food Review.
Among her awards she has a DBE, 12 honorary degrees or fellowships from UK universities, the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the year, and her restaurant, Leith’s, won a Michelin star.
She is married with two children and five grandchildren.
Not bad for an octogenarian!
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