Stay For Supper by Xanthe Ross.

Xanthe is our daughter (Charlie and Caroline’s). She is our fourth child, and this is her first book. When she left Edinburgh University and moved to London she immediately started working in food and drink marketing but really struggled to find her feet. She had always been interested in food, inspired by us both but particularly Caroline whose interest in cooking led, variously, to always making our own bread, growing veg and ultimately to her second career as Global Project Manager to the late (and very great) Bill Granger and his global chain of restaurants.

Anyway…after a few years of near misery working in London for brands that didn’t do it for her, Xanthe needed a change and moved to Hawarden. It’s a long story but this is it in a short paragraph.

She started growing veg. She cooked and dried and fermented and baked. She learned bread making, chicken rearing and cooking. She studied at Ballymoloe, started an Instagram feed, begun hosting supper clubs. She immersed herself in learning about agriculture. She started a bakery at Hawarden and on and on. And then, this, her first book. She is the real thing.

We are super proud of her. Of course.

I will leave it to the official publisher’s narrator to tell you about the book.

Stay for Supper: Laid-back Vegetarian Food to Share. By Xanthe Ross (née Gladstone).

Here is Xanthe proudly holding her first ever copy!