Holiday Relief Cook, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh. Leader, Doncaster Youth Action Summer Camp, running play schemes, working with handicapped children and in day centers for pensioners. Occasional articles and presentations for food-orientated organizations and magazines. Reviewing nutrition-related books for publishers and journals. I am currently completing a vegan cookery book which is to be published soon.
Interests Travel to Eastern Europe, studying the diet and lifestyle.
I intend to make this an ongoing study of the changes to a traditional community brought about by outside influences. I have also visited other European countries with an eye to how ordinary people shop and eat. I was in Croatia briefly in 1992, seeing the stresses on family life caused by war. Other than many aspects of food and nutrition, my interests are modern serious music, cycling, quilting and dressmaking. I have two sons, aged 17 and 18 who I have brought up on my own since they started school.