Julius Roberts is a first-generation farmer and restaurant trained chef, on a mission to live a self-sufficient life down on his family smallholding in Dorset, whilst also cultivating the finest ingredients, and cooking and eating the very best food.

After graduating from art college, he ended up in a professional London kitchen. But the environment proved too intense, and he yearned to be back in the countryside, growing and foraging for his own food, and living and eating with the seasons in mind. These days Julius cooks every day with produce he has grown on his smallholding, or foraged in the surrounding woods, bringing his huge wealth of knowledge and ideas to even the simplest of ingredients. It is this combination of honest tales from farming life together with delicious home cooked recipes, that has so captivated his legion of Instagram and TikTok followers. Julius embraces the pace of country life, is palpably inspired by what he does - and determined to inspire and delight others, whatever stage of their cooking (or growing) journey.

Julius’ television series, A Taste of the Country aired on Channel 5 in 2022 and his long-awaited debut book, The Farm Table (Ebury Press) was published in September 2023.

Meera Sodha is a voracious home cook, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian. Her first book, Made in India, was named a book of the year by the Times and the Financial Times. Her second, Fresh India, won the
2017 Observer Food Monthly’s Best New Cookbook Award. Her third book, East, was published in 2019 and was called ‘fabulous’ by Nigella Lawson. Meera’s new book, Dinner, came out in August of this year. She lives
in London with her husband, and two children.

Clare is an an award-winning journalist, author and cheese-lover, born and based in London – though she spent much of her childhood in her grandparent’s seaside hotel, her grandmother cooking. It was this that partly inspired her debut book, The Female Chef, which celebrates those women rewriting the rules of what it means to a successful chef in the UK. The Female Chef was awarded Fortnum and Mason’s Debut Food Book award in 2022. Her second book, Hungry Heart, explores how food shapes our loves, lives and relationships, and was named the Times Book of the Year 2023. Finney’s journalism appears in the UK’s leading publications including the Guardian,
The Times, the iPaper, the Telegraph, delicious. magazine and the Standard. She writes about sustainability, food and relationships, food and feminism, trends in food culture, and as often as she is permitted, cheese.

Sally Abé knows British cuisine through and through. Her restaurant The Pem is at the Conrad London St James and she has worked in some of the UK’s top kitchens including Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s, and The Ledbury. After five years, Sally took a break from the kitchen to explore other areas of the industry. When Sally was younger, she wanted to be a journalist, and she took this opportunity to
combine her love of writing and cooking, and was appointed Technical Food Editor at Great British Chefs. Sally spent a year and a half with the GBC team, creating and editing recipes alongside food styling for photoshoots.
In 2021 Sally was appointed as Consultant Chef by the Conrad London St James where she runs The Pem, named after suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, and works with a nearly-all female team - something unique and rare in fine dining. For her incredible work, she was shortlisted for GQ’s overall Chef of the Year 2021, and was voted Chef of the Year at the SquareMeal and Champagne AYALA Female Chef Awards in 2021. Sally’ memoir, A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE KITCHEN, which follows her journey
through the hospitality industry, was published by Fleet in June 2024.