Rose Prince (born 4 December 1962) is a British food writer, author, cook and activist.[1] She was the in-house cook at The Spectator magazine for seven years.
Her writing career started in her mid thirties, after she worked as a chef and the cook in the Notting Hill specialist bookshop, Books for Cooks (where she worked with Clarissa Dixon Wright).
She has a weekly column in The Daily Telegraph. Her columns are widely syndicated. She also has a monthly column in the Catholic weekly, The Tablet (although herself an Anglican she is married to a Catholic). She is a prolific writer and contributes to The Daily Mail, The Spectator, The Times, and Sunday Telegraph. For three years she had a column on The Daily Express. In 2000, she produced a two-part biopic about the food writer Elizabeth David for British broadcaster Channel 4, which also aired in Australia.
She contributes regularly to BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme and was a judge for its Food and Farming Awards in 2009. She was a member of the House of Lords Committee of Inquiry into the meat industry in 2000. She was the winner of a Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award in 2001 and in 2009 was named by Vogue magazine as one of the most inspirational women in Britain.[2]
In 2011, she launched the Pocket Bakery with her children Jack and Lara (then 8 and 11 years old), a community bakery run in her Battersea kitchen making slow fermentation (sourdough) breads for the neighbourhood. In 2012 the bakery transferred its weekly pop-up to the Doodle Bar in Battersea, providing pastries and bread for locals. A non-profit business, the children received pocket money as an income and other young workers were invited to take part with paid training in enterprise and baking skills.[3]
She is married to Dominic Prince,[4] a fellow journalist and amateur jockey. They have two children, Jack and Lara.[3]