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Ladies Luncheon 2012Thursday 17th May, 2012 .
* This event has now sold out *
THE 2012 LADIES LUNCHEON SPEAKER IS PRUE LEITH
Prue Leith started her catering company Leith's Good Food and opened the Michelin starred restaurant Leith's in the 60s. In the 70s she added Leith's School of Food and Wine, and by the time she sold the three businesses in the 90s she employed 500 people and turned over £15million. Since then she has opened a training restaurant and catering college in South Africa, and a charitable training restaurant, the Hoxton Apprentice, in Hackney. In 1989 Leith was appointed OBE and went on to receive Veuve Cliquot Business Women of the Year in 1990. In 2010 Leith was honoured with a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours list. Her involvement with food, catering and education has been deep. She is currently a trustee of Slow Food U.K. ,which promotes good, fair, clean food under the international Slow Food movement. Leith has chaired 3E's, a not-for-profit company turning round failing state schools; she was on the quango that developed the National Vocational Qualifications; she chaired the British Food Trust which developed the Applied Ability Awards for chefs; and she chaired the RSA which set up Focus on Food, the charity which sends cooking buses into schools to teach children to cook. Previously a cookery columnist for the Daily Mail, Sunday Express, Guardian and Mirror, she has written 12 cookbooks, including, with Caroline Waldegrave, the best selling Leith's Cookery Bible. She has published fived novels, published by Penguin, the latest being the political novel, A Serving of Scandal.
Due to the popularity of this event we urge you to complete book your tickets ASAP. Download a booking form or phone the Fundraising Team on 01785 270808 as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Tables can’t be reserved and are sold on a first come first served basis.
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