Matilda Culme-Seymour

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Tilly Culme-Seymour is a freelance food writer and professionally trained cook. She is a regular contributor to food quarterly Fire and Knives and deputy editor of SpectatorScoff, the food and drink arm of the Spectator magazine and website.

Tilly has worked at The Chocolate Society in London and Sheridan's Cheesemongers in Dublin. She trained as a pastry chef under Rose Carrarini at Rose Bakery in Paris and with Eric Treuillé at Books for Cooks in London's Notting Hill. She worked front of house at the prestigious River Café and below stairs at Tea's Me in Ladbroke Grove, where she made pots of greengage jam that reminded her of her childhood.

Tilly's first book is a 'memoir with recipes' of her Norwegian grandmother, Mormor, and their family summers on a wild island off the coast of Norway. ISLAND SUMMERS will be published by Bloomsbury in Spring 2012.

Tilly is based in London.