She also works as a lecturer in Human Nutrition at the University of Leeds. Joan has a masters in Medical Science and a PhD.
Her interest in cooking started when she was young and she was fortunate enough to learn how to cook at school. Her skills were polished up at Leith’s School of Food and Wine in London. Lots of chefs, colleagues, friends and family have shared their interest in food with her and she has also travelled widely.
Her published work includes celebrity interviews; cookery led features on local food, articles on nutrition and health, kitchen gardening and even - cutlery. Joan has edited “Food and Nutritional Supplements; Their Role in Health and Disease and published by Springer Verlag. She also takes her own photographs.
Joan writes for the Yorkshire Post, and Yorkshire and Peak District Life magazines and has had recipes published in the Times. This year she was shortlisted for the Guardian’s Travel Writers Competition.
Joan has made several TV appearances including UKTV’s People’s Cook Book with Anthony Worrall Thompson and Paul Rankin. She makes regular contributions to local and national radio including BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio 4 and Five Live.
Joan is on the committee of the Guild of Food Writers