Contact Gilli Cliff:
Mosswood Cottage
Crayke
York
YO61 4TQ

Tel/Fax: 01347 822386
Mobile: 07710 421251
Email: gilli@countrycook.co.uk

About Me

My passion for food spans thirty years from running a bistro in Oxford at the age of nineteen to writing and presenting a ten part TV series, Tastes of Wales in 1990.

I have written 10 cookery books based on local food culture in Cyprus and Wales and more recently, organic produce.  Running my own company for 5 years I set up children’s cookery classes, a training scheme to encourage restaurants to use local ingredients and a variety of food events.  I have contributed to committees for the FSA and Defra.

A member of the Guild of Food Writers for the past 20 years, I was elected as Chairman in Spring 2007.  With over 360 members, the Guild is an energetic organization which supports and promotes food writers across Britain, running our own prestigious Food Writer Awards annually and hosting a number of ‘foodie’ events for members. 

Moving to Crayke in Yorkshire in 2001, I have set up a cookery school where I run monthly cookery classes.

Consultant to the food industry, I sit on the board of Biocop, an organization that researches new technologies to screen multiple contaminants in foods as well as the Animal Register Working Group for Defra.