Kathy Slack
Kathy Slack is an award-winning food writer, cook and veg grower. She’s a rat race escapee who began her life in food at Daylesford Organic Farm before becoming a full-time writer and presenter sharing recipes and stories inspired by her back garden veg patch.
Her debut cookbook FROM THE VEG PATCH published by Ebury in 2021, was shortlisted for The Guild of Food Writers Award for Best Cookbook. Her latest book ROUGH PATCH: How a year in the garden brought me back to life a memoir with recipes, explores how growing food helped her recover from depression, leave her highflying career and build a new life inspired by the land and was published in 2025.
She has written regular features for Delicious magazine, Simple Things magazine, OcadoLife, Borough Market’s Market Life, is a regular contributor to the BBC Gardeners World website, and writes the bestselling Substack newsletter, Tales From the Veg Patch.
Kathy gives talks and demonstrations about seasonal food, both in her role as Fortnum & Mason’s vegetable expert and around the country at various festivals, radio shows and podcasts, all with a focus on growing and cooking your own food.
Instagram: @gluts_gluttony
Substack: Tales from the Veg Patch