The Cooking Canon is the screen name of John Eley, a British celebrity chef.
Eley appears on television and radio, contributes to a range of magazines and tours the country with his road show.
Born in 1949, he is an English Anglican priest[1] who was a lighting engineer before studying for the priesthood at Salisbury & Wells Theological College.
In 1980 he began to appear as a chef on the BBC television show Pebble Mill at One, and subsequently presented a regular cookery slot on the breakfast TV programme Good Morning Britain with TV-am.
[2][3] His ecclesiastical career then took him to All Saints, Bromsgrove and after that Kedington Benefice - Great Bradley.