She taught at Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in London, and co-devised coronation chicken in 1953.
[1] In 1931, she and Dione Lucas set up a cookery school in London as they had both trained in Paris.
They had a flat in Chelsea and they would reputedly serve their students' creations to passing trade at chairs and tables on the pavement.
Hume and Lucas opened l’Ecole du Petit Cordon Bleu in 1933.
Dione Lucas is thought to have helped Hume create her first cookery book as her spelling was known to be poor.