I’m a baker and food writer with an entrepreneurial spirit, currently based in London, UK.
With a masters degree from the Royal College of Art, I originally worked as an industrial designer between 2010 - 2015, in roles that varied from initial concept design to production systems and sales. In 2015 I began teaching part time on the Art Foundation and MA Product Design courses at Kingston University up until 2018.
In 2014, I retrained as a baker and have since had a variety of jobs within hospitality as both a baker and chef, running my own businesses and working with and for food related social enterprises. I founded and ran educational micro-bakery The Bread Companion between 2014 and 2021. In 2020, I published cookbook, ’How to eat your Christmas tree,’ (Hardie Grant), which led to lots more food writing opportunities for magazines and journals. I currently write and produce the ‘How to eat alone,’ podcast which touches on issues of solitude and solo dining.
Though originally from London with Cypriot heritage, I have travelled extensively, studied in Milan in 2008 and relocated to Lisbon between 2018 - 2021 in search of new foodie opportunities in an up-and-coming city. Whilst living in Portugal, I ran food-related events, continued to run my microbakery and was involved in a restaurant.
The Covid-19 pandemic gave me much needed space to reassess and during this time I closed the chapter on several businesses that I had been involved with prior to 2020. I returned to London at the end of 2021 and, since then, have been freelancing in various bakeries and kitchens, working on self-directed writing and research projects and writing about food for journals.
Below you can find my CV. Gaps in my CV can usually be attributed to a flare up of the autoimmune condition that I suffer with, which means that I have to hit the breaks on work for a few months.
Curriculum Vitae
Employment
The Snapery East, baker, part time,
March - August, 2023
Walworth Garden, part time consultancy project,
August 2022 - August 2023
‘How to eat your Christmas tree’ supper club & cookbook,
November 2015 - January 2023
Canababes, chef & events manager,
May 2022 - October 2022
Freelance work during the pandemic,
March 2020 - May 2022
Baker for DOH Bakery in Hackney Wick (now known as Hearth Bakery) and as a chef/FOH in pop-up cafe What Katie Did Next.
Working in Lisbon,
October 2018 - October 2021
I continued to run my microbakery, The Bread Companion, ran a number of educational food related events, baked for private customers, restaurants and events such as The Future of Food is Female and Second Home and invested in the restaurant, Queimado.
The Bread Companion, Founder,
June 2014 - January 2021
Better Health Bakery, Baker, part-time,
February 2014 - February 2018
Design work,
2010 - 2015 (and the odd bit of work after that)
During my 5 years in the design world, I worked in a number of jobs for SCP, Adventures in Furniture, Anthony Dickens Studio, Studio Glitter and Simon Hasan Studio. I also worked as a studio assistant for The Saturday Market Project and set up guerilla pop up shop, Today's Specials. More recently, I have taught Design to university students co-ran Mnimi Jewellery Studio between January 2019 and January 2022 as a part-time, side hustle with an old friend. I left Mnimi to focus fully on my work in food.
Extra Curricular
GROW - Volunteer Gardener
October 2022 - January 2023
Designers on Holiday, Sweden - Resident Chef
Every summer between 2015 - 2023
Bakers Against Racism & Bake for Ukraine
March 2022
Organised and ran a bake sale fundraiser in support of Ukraine. We raised over 1k for the cause.
Blue Sky Center, California, Farm-To-Table Supper Club & Workshops
May 2018
Invited to be a guest chef in the middle of this ‘food desert’ in California. Collaborated with local farmers and producers to run a free farm-to-table dinner for locals who often don’t have access to fresh, affordable food.
Cause2Create & E5 Bakehouse, Refugee Supper Club organiser
September 2016
Organised a dinner cooked by a group of women who had just completed E5 Bakehouse’s program that taught cooking skills to refugees. Wrote the menu, sold tickets, organised service and served supper club guests.
Talks & Exhibitions -
'Plant Fever Exhibition' CID au Grand-Hornu,
Belgium 2020/21 - contributing artist
'Form, Function, Food' Exhibition R-Space Gallery,
Lisburn, Ireland, 2016 - exhibiting artist
'Reinventing the Familiar' The Training Partnership,
London 2015 & 2016 - speaker
'The Pineapple Show' Royal College of Art,
London 2014 - exhibiting artist
'Big Small Show' London Design Festival,
London 2014 - curator and exhibiting artist
'Sustain Graduate Exhibition,' Royal College of Art,
London 2014 - exhibiting artist
'Made in...' London Design Festival,
London 2010 - co-curator and exhibiting artist
'Everyday Delights' JJAM Curators Collective,
London 2010 - exhibiting artist
Education -
Royal College of Art, London
MA Design Products, 2012 - 2014.
Kingston University, London
BA Product & Furniture Design (1st Class Hons), 2007 - 2010.
Politecnico di Milano, Milan
(Exchange programme) Disegno Industriale, 2008- 2009.
Kingston University, London
Art Foundation in Art & Design, 2006.
St Albans High School for Girls, St Albans
(3 A Levels, 5 AS Levels, 11 GCSEs, 1999 - 2006.
Short Courses & Qualifications -
Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene for Catering
RSPH Level 4 Award in Nutrition, St. Mary's University, Twickenham
Advanced Patisserie and Viennoiserie, School of Artisan Food
Languages -
Native English speaker
Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, Greek.
Moderate speaker of Italian.