Jessica Thompson

Jess' love of pottering in the kitchen and garden began at a young age with snow pea sprouts, snap dragons and standing on stools to flip pancakes. Her first major cooking bungle was at age 5, when making ANZAC biscuits she assumed that 3/4 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda must have been a typo for 3/4 cup.

Jess feels lucky to have lived, travelled and eaten all over the world, from bastile (pigeon pie) in Morocco, to raspberries plucked from vines in the Gower Peninsula, Wales, to shirako sarada (a salad consisting of raw fish sperm tubes) in Japan… and hopes she gets to travel and eat some more! She treasures time spent cooking and sharing food with her family and friends.

Jess has studied business and linguistics, managed a pizza shop in Bristol, taught English in Japan and now works in the arts and cultural sector in Australia. She finds food puns irresistible.