Hester Sophia Frances Grigson (born 19 June 1959) is an English cookery writer and celebrity cook.
Grigson was born in the village of Broad Town,[1] near Swindon, Wiltshire, in 1959 and attended Oxford High School.
[4] After graduating in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (she was vice-president of the UMIST Alumni Association), she worked for a time as a production manager of pop videos for groups including Bonnie Tyler and the Style Council.
She won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Journalist of the Year Award in 2001 for her work in Country Living magazine.
[9][10] She currently lives in Puglia in the south of Italy,[11] where she runs a small catering company, Trulli Delicious.