Great British Menu's Andi Oliver's famous daughter, pop star past and celebrity best friend
12.03.2024 - 20:55
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Chef, writer, restaurateur and TV judge Andi Oliver is now a familiar face to millions of viewers as presenter of BBC show Great British Menu.
She's said she "can’t remember a time when I wasn’t cooking for people" - and it's a passion that has taken her from the early days in her family kitchen to owning her own restaurant and sharing her recipes with readers and TV audiences.
Great British Menu underwent a change of format a couple of years ago, introducing a presenter in its fifteenth series to oversee proceedings. The role went to comedian Susan Calman but she was replaced by Andi the following year.
Read on to find out more about Andi's life and career.
Andi spent her early years in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. Her mother is a teacher and her father was in the RAF, meaning the family also spent some time living in Cyprus.
She has spoken of happy memories of weekly family roast dinners, telling the Evening Standard: “They were a real thing for us. They’d be working during the week but at weekends we’d all cook together. It was our proper family time, a time of conviviality, where we all actually had time to enjoy the complete madness of the family."
She was learning to cook cauliflower cheese at the age of nine and joked she was "that odd kid" who started having dinner parties at the age of 12. She recalls: "I was obsessed with recreating pictures from books - like ones by Marguerite Patten."
When the family lived in Cyprus, a young Andi picked up "a lot of the flavours and ingredients that I cook with today". She said: "Today I serve platters of grilled seafood which is definitely something I got from Cyprus. I just remember going to the rocks to watch the fishermen catch fish and feeling so excited about connecting
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