Lindsey Bareham

Lindsey Bareham is best known for her daily recipe column in the Evening Standard, which she wrote for eight years. As a freelance food writer and broadcaster she wrote the weekly ‘Cheat’s Dinner Party’ column in the Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine which formed the basis of her latest book, Dinner in a Dash. She now writes an after-work recipe column for The Times T2 section on Fridays and contributes a monthly recipe column to Saga Magazine.

She has written eleven cookery books, including In Praise of the Potato, A Celebration of Soup, The Big Red Book of Tomatoes, Just One Pot, and The Fish Store, a collection of recipes and stories, inspired by her holiday home in a Cornish fishing village. In collaboration with Simon Hopkinson she produced The Prawn Cocktail Years and Roast Chicken and Other Stories, voted by chefs and other food writers the most useful cookbook of all time. Her latest book is Hungry? Easy Food For Students and Beginners.