Sophie Grigson is a UK cookery writer and television chef, the daughter of Jane Grigson. She is known for her extravagant, dangly earrings and appears regularly on the BBC Food television channel. Jane Grigson (nee McIntyre)(1928 - 1990) was a British cookery writer. ... BBC Food is the BBC’s international commercial television channel all about food. ...

After graduating in 1982 with a B.Sc. in mathematics from UMIST University in Manchester (where she is currently Vice President of the Alumni Association), she worked for a time as a production manager of pop videos for groups including Bonnie Tyler and Style Council. Having inherited her mother's love of food, she found she also enjoyed writing about it. Her first food article, published in 1983 in the Sunday Express Magazine, was entitled "Fifty ways with potatoes". She has since written columns for The Evening Standard, The Independent, and The Sunday Times. Her television debut came in 1993 with a twelve-part series "Grow Your Greens, Eat Your Greens" on Channel 4. Bonnie Tyler Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins on June 8, 1953 in Skewen, Neath) is a Welsh singer. ... The Style Council was formed by ex-Jam singer and guitarist Paul Weller with keyboardist Mick Talbot in 1983. ...

She has written a number of best-selling books including, "Eat your greens" (1993), "Travels a La Carte" (1994, written with William Black), "Fish" (1998, written with William Black), "Sophie Grigson's Herbs" (1999), "Organic" (2001, written with William Black), "Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen" (2003) and "The First-time Cook" (2004).

She won the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Journalist Award 2001.

She lives in Oxford with her husband William Black and their children, Florence and Sidney.