Rosemary Shrager

Rosemary Shrager began her cookery career working for Pierre Koffmann at Chelsea's La Tante Claire and Jean-Christophe Novelli, gradually discovering her passion and talent for teaching. Thus her cookery school at Amhuinnsuidhe Castle off the Scottish coast was born, and in 2004 she moved to Swinton Park, a beautiful castle hotel in North Yorkshire, where her courses for home cooks continue to be a huge hit.

Rosemary is the star of television series such as: Castle Cook (ROSEMARY CASTLE COOK, Adelphi Publishers) and Rosemary on the Road (both Channel Five), Ladette to Lady (ITV) and Rosemary, Queen of the Kitchen (Discovery). In 2007, her television career took a great leap forward when she became ITV’s Alan Titchmarsh Show’s resident cook and presented a 30-part RDF Television series Rosemary Shrager's School for Cooks (ITV). A second series, for 2008, was commissioned immediately and a tie-in book ROSEMARY SHRAGER'S SCHOOL FOR COOKS was published by Dorling Kindersley, first in hardback and then as a paperback. Early in 2009, Rosemary Shrager and her talented team won ITV's cookery challenge Taste the Nation. She is now the resident cook of ITV's popular daytime show, This Morning, and is presenting Ladette to Lady with American and Australian contestants, in response to the popularity of the TV series in the USA (MTV) and Australia (Channel Nine). Rosemary is currently sailing the waters of the British Isles filming a major new ITV evening show. Rosemary's latest book, ABSOLUTELY FOOLPROOF CLASSIC HOME COOKING, was published by Octopus Publishing in 2011 and will be quickly followed by ROSEMARY SHRAGER'S YORKSHIRE BREAKFASTS, which will be published in October 2011 by Great Northern Books.

Rosemary Shrager lives in Masham, Yorkshire.