Caroline Stacey

Caroline has been a journalist, teacher and food charity worker.
 
For nearly a decade she was food editor of Time Out magazine, and consultant editor of the Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide, eating her way round London at an estimated 900 restaurants.
 
As food editor of the Independent magazine she wrote restaurant reviews, features and interviewed, among others, Jamie Oliver, Heston Blumenthal and Antonio Carluccio, commissioned and edited food and drink pages and regular special issues.
 
She has also written for BBC Good Food magazine, olive, www.bbc.o.uk/food, the Telegraph, and The Times about food issues inlcuding children’s food and education, food production, sustainability, and cooking economically.

​Her writing has been recognised with two Glenfiddich Awards and a Guild of Food Writers‘ Food Journalist of the Year Award.
 
In 2010 she qualified as a secondary school teacher, and subsequently taught cooking and Catering and Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSEs in East London schools, achieving outstanding results for her students. Handing out 28 knives to teenagers and showing them how to chop onions does not faze her.
 
Most recently, she ran an education programme in Hackney, motivating and inspiring more than 700 people in food poverty to make lasting changes to their wellbeing by cooking from scratch on a very low income.
 
At home, when not in the kitchen, she’ll be in the garden, knitting or reading.