Profile

LIZ TRIGG is a consultant to commercial food companies, stylist, teacher, recipe writer and journalist.

At The Good Housekeeping Research Institute she was Food Development Consultant to large food companies and retailers. She has been Food Editor of Company and Options Magazine, styled a number of books and she has contributed articles to a range of publications including Daily Telegraph, BBC Good Food Magazine, BBC Gourmet Magazine and Australian Vogue Entertaining. Liz spent 8 years working for Asda working on food trends and she set up and ran the Asda Academy of Food Skills.

Liz co-presented The Mediterranean Diet Video with Amanda Ursell and appeared on This Morning (ITV1) and presented 60 programmes for GSkyB’s Goodlife Gourmet. Her first book 50 Sensational Stir Fries has been re-printed five times and was serialised by The Daily Mail. She followed this with 50 Fabulous Fish Recipes, Glorious Country, British Country Cooking, A Flash in the Pan, The London Cookbook and Weight Watchers Pizza and Pasta book. She has worked intensively for Heinz Food and is a food consultant to Marks & Spencer.

Liz also creates and runs food themed team building events.

Biography

Liz Trigg is a passionate cook who cares about the food we all eat and she has a fresh and contemporary style. Her enthusiasm for food is based on her knowledge and experience in communicating about food to different audiences for over 13 years. 

Recognition of her talent began early, with prizes awarded to her at school. After her BSc in Home Economics at Cardiff University, her practical talents were put into practice at Prue Leith's Good Food Company, where she was responsible for the food on the Orient Express as well as acting as head cook for Government and Royal Household venues. 

She began her media career as Home Economist for Home and Freezer Digest Magazine, where she contributed recipes and styled the food for the magazine's cookery pages. She moved to The Good Housekeeping Research Institute as Food Project Manager, where she acted as Food Development Consultant to large food companies and retailers. 

Wanting to broaden her culinary horizons she cooked in Switzerland for a while, returning as Deputy Cookery Editor for Woman and Home Magazine.  She became Food Editor of Company Magazine and lectured at Leith's School of Food and Wine on food photography. She then became Food Editor of Options Magazine, where her role included writing on serious food issues as well as commenting on new foods, new products, writing recipes and acting as food stylist. 

She has Food Styled for books such as Robert Carrier's Vegetarian Cookbook and six Good Housekeeping books and she has contributed articles to a range of publications including Daily Telegraph, BBC Good Food Magazine, BBC Gourmet Magazine and Australian Vogue Entertaining.

Liz co-presented The Mediterranean Diet Video with Amanda Ursell and has presented a series of features about party planning for ITV's This Morning programme. She was resident cookery presenter for GSkyB's Goodlife Gourmet from September 1996 for its run of 60 programmes. She has also guested a number of times for The Cook's Garden for GSkyB, Carlton Food Network's Food for Friends and Carlton Food Network Daily. 

Her first book 50 Sensational Stir Fries has been re-printed five times and was serialised by The Daily Mail. She followed this with 50 Fabulous Fish Recipes, Glorious Country, British Country Cooking, A Flash in the Pan, The London Cookbook and Weight Watchers Pizza and Pasta book. 

She travels extensively in her quest to keep up with world food trends and is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals. When she joined the British Guild of Food Writers, she was one of its youngest members.  She is currently a food consultant for Marks & Spencer.