Hello, Melissa here. I’m a former private chef turned food columnist, best-selling cookbook author, real food activist and sustainability champion who is passionate about spreading the power of feel-good food. Feel-good food, for me, is food that not only tastes delicious, it’s food that nourishes our bodies, food that’s grown with the seasons and with respect for the people who grow it. It’s food to be enjoyed and shared, and it’s food that is used to its full wholesome, nourishing potential with nothing wasted.
I have written five cookbooks, including Eat Green, Eat Happy and my latest book Feel Good with 100 quick and easy recipes to bring a bit of comfort and joy into our kitchens and beyond.
In addition to my cookbooks, I have written recipe and sustainability columns for The Telegraph and Vogue, respectively.
I’m proud to be an ambassador of Fairtrade UK, volunteer for The Felix Project, judge of GQ Food & Drinks Awards and Soil Association (Best of Organic awards), the Guild of Fine Foods and YBFs (Young British Foodies) and host of the 2019 Sustainable Restaurant Association awards and the 2020 Veg Summit Awards (The Food Foundation).
I write a Substack newsletter, where I share lots of recipes, tips and tricks for loving your leftovers, interviews, recommendations and snippets of family life with our baby girl, Summer, and dog, Nelly.
