Prue leith biography template

South African chef living in the UK (born 1940)

Dame Prudence Margaret Leith, DBE (born 18 February 1940^[1]) is a South African^[2]restaurateur, broadcaster, cookery writer and novelist.

She is Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She was a judge on BBC Two's Great British Menu for eleven years, before joining The Great British Bake Off in March 2017, replacing Mary Berry, when the television programme moved to Channel 4.^[3]

Early life

Leith was born in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa.^[2]

Career

In 1960, Leith moved to London to attend the Cordon Bleu Cookery School and then began a business supplying high-quality business lunches.

This grew to become Leith's Good Food, a party and event caterer.^[4] In 1969, she opened Leith's, her Michelin-starred restaurant in Notting Hill, eventually selling it in 1995.^[5] In 1975, she founded Leith's School of Food and Wine, w