Prue Leith
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Prudence Margaret "Prue" Leith (born 18 February 1940) is a British-South African restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, researcher, and novelist.
She is the Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
She appeared on BBC Two's Great British Menu for eleven years before joining The Great British Bake Off in March 2017, replacing Mary Berry when the show moved to Channel 4.
Early life
Leith was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Sam Leith, her father, worked for African Explosives, a ICI subsidiary that manufactures dynamite for use in mines, and later served as a director. Margaret 'Peggy' Inglis, her mother, was an actress. Leith attended St Mary's School, an English private boarding school for girls run by Anglican nuns, from the age of 5 to 17. She left Cape Town with a first-class matriculation and continued to study at the University of Cape Town, where she was unable to enroll in any length of time courses in drama, fine art, architecture, or French. Although studying the Cours de Civilisation Française, she advised her parents not to encourage her to attend the Sorbonne (formally, the University of Paris). She decided she wanted to work in the food industry while in Paris.
Personal life
Rayne Kruger, a real estate developer and writer, with whom she had had a 13-year affair before he married his first wife, from 1974 to his death in December 2002, was married in Leith. The couple had two children, a son, and a daughter. Li-Da Kruger, their daughter (a Cambodian adoptedee), is a filmmaker. Danny Kruger, the family's son, was a speechwriter and strategist to David Cameron, and he became the MP for Devizes' safe Conservative constituency in December 2019.
"I ended up voting for Brexit, but I dithered and dithered for ages because there were some legitimate arguments on both directions," Danny Kruger said.
Leith married John Playfair, a former clothing designer, in October 2016.
James Leith, the ex-restaurateur, is married to biographer Penny Junor.
Beat challenged Leith's The Great British Bakeoff catch, which Beat believes is triggering to those who suffer from eating disorders.
In May 2020, she spoke out in favour of Dominic Cummings and Mary Wakefield's breach of virus lockdown, who her son referred to as "old friends."
She appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in December 2021.
Career
Leith was born in 1960 and migrated to London to attend the Cordon Bleu Cookery School, where she launched a company that sold high-quality business lunches. Good Food, a party and event caterer, came to Leith. Leith's, her Michelin-starred restaurant in Notting Hill, opened in 1969 and has been selling it ever since. Leith's School of Food and Wine, which educates professional chefs and amateur cooks, was established in 1975. In 1993, the company made a £15 million profit before being sold. She was a founding member of Prue Leith College, which has since been renamed Prue Leith Chef's Academy in South Africa.
She began working on improving the British Railways Board's much-criticised catering after being recruited in 1977. Travellers Fare, a catering company, was isolated from the hotel industry in 1982, with Casey Jones and Upper Crust as the first outlets.
Leith, a food columnist, served for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, The Guardian, and the Daily Mirror, among other publications. Laura has written seven books, including Leith's Cookery Bible, including Leaving Patrick, Sisters, A Lovesome Thing, A Choral Society, A Serving of Scandal, The Food of Love: Laura's Story and The Prosecutive Daughter. These last two chapters are the culmination of the Food of Love trilogy. Relish's memoir was published in 2013.
Tyne Tees Television made her first television appearance in the 1970s as the host of two 13-episode magazine series aimed at women at home. She was a last-minute replacement for Jack de Manio, but she had no expertise and a director who liked everything scripted, including interviews, and she disliked the process. She appeared on two television shows about her life and work in the 1980s: the first episode of Channel 4's Take Six Cooks and the BBC's The Best of British, a series about young entrepreneurs. She was one of the Commissioners on Channel 4's Poverty Commission in 1999. She returned to television to be a judge on The Great British Menu for 11 years until 2016 and a judge for My Kitchen Rules, which she retained to substitute Mary Berry in The Great British Bake Off.
She has worked with education and has worked with food. When chair of the Royal Society of Arts she founded and chaired the charity Focus on Food (now a member of the Soil Association) which promotes cooking in the curriculum. Hoxton Apprenticeship, a not-for-profit restaurant that for ten years trained the most homeless long-term unemployed young people, she also started with the charity Training for Life. Esmée Fairbairne's Food Strand was one of the grant-giving charity from 2005 until 2015. She served as the Chair of the School Food Trust from 2007 to 2010, the government quango largely responsible for the improvement of school meals following Jamie Oliver's television interview of the poor state of school dinners. Let's Get Cooking, a group of over 5,000 cooking clubs in state schools of which she is a patron, is also operated by the Trust (now the Children's Food Trust). She is vice president of The Sustainable Restaurant Association, a trustee of Baby Taste Journey (an education charity focusing on healthy eating for infants); Sustain's Campaign for Better Hospital Food; and the Prue Leith Chef's Academy in South Africa.
She has also worked in general education, chairing Ashridge Management College (2002-07); 3E's Enterprises (an education company) is a non-profit organization that operates schools and governing academies (1998–2006) and Chairman of Governors at the secondary school Kings College in Guildford (2000–07).
She has worked with many organisations, including the Restaurateurs Association (1990–94); she chaired the Royal Society of Artists (1995–99); and Future of the Future (2000–03). She was a founder of the Housing Association, Places for People (1999-2003) and a founding member of the Consumer Debt Working Group, which produced the Conservative Party's 2006 policy paper Breakdown Britain (2004-05). She has also spoken out in favour of Brexit, defending her decision, but she has expressed worry about food quality reforms lately.
When she was in Trafalgar Square at the Royal Academy of British Architects, she forged the thriving campaign to use the empty plinth, now known as the Fourth Plinth, to house changing sculptures or installations by the best contemporary artists.
Leith is a non-executive director of British Rail; British Transport Hotels; Safeway; Argyll plc; the Leeds Permanent Building Society; Whitbread plc; and Triven VCT; Omega International plc; and Belmond Hotels Ltd (formerly Orient Express Hotels) and is a director and investor in many start-up businesses.
She was appointed as the Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, in July 2017.