Olivia Potts

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Olivia "Livvy" Potts is a British food writer and caterer. [1] [2] [3]

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She grew up in Newcastle and studied English at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. [4] During her time at Cambridge she was president of the Cambridge Union. [4] She then studied law at City, University of London [5] and was called to the bar in 2011, practising criminal law for five years. [1]

Food career

Soon after Potts had qualified as a barrister, her mother died suddenly aged 54. Potts found that cooking, especially baking, helped her to cope with her loss, and took this further by enrolling for a nine-month pâtisserie diploma course at Le Cordon Bleu in London. She wrote about this part of her life in a memoir, A Half Baked Idea, which was published in 2020, [6] [7] and won the Debut Book section of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards. She won the Guild of Food Writers award for Food Writing in 2020, for her writing in Slightly Foxed , The Guardian , Grazia , The Spectator and Glamour . [8] Her second book, Butter, a cookery book, appeared in 2022; [9] [10] Nigella Lawson said of it that Potts "explains, educates, inspires, and writes like an angel with devilish wit". [11]

She writes on food for publications including The Spectator [12] and North-West England website Confidentials.com. [13]

On 27 February 2023, Potts was a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity . [14] Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a jar of marmalade.

Personal life

Potts lives with her husband and child in the west of Greater Manchester. [13]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 "Olivia Potts". United Agents. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Alumna Olivia Potts Success Story". www.cordonbleu.edu. Le Cordon Bleu London. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  3. ↑ Girling, Anna (14 August 2020). "A Half Baked Idea by Olivia Potts book review". TLS. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  4. 1 2 Potts, Livvy. "President of the Cambridge Union". The Pelican, Issue 17, Lent term, 2009, pp. 20-1. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  5. ↑ Smith, P. D. (1 August 2019). "A Half Baked Idea by Olivia Potts review – from crown court to creme caramel". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Morris, Sophie (2 August 2019). "A Half Baked Idea by Olivia Potts: how baking saved writer from grief". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  7. ↑ "Awards 2020 Winners: Judges' Comments". www.gfw.co.uk. Guild of Food Writers . Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  8. ↑ Ferrier, Morwenna (7 October 2022). "Whipped, hip and drizzled in honey: why Britain is back in love with butter". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme - The Food Programme's Books of 2022". BBC. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  10. ↑ Lawson, Nigella (15 September 2022). "Butter by Olivia Potts". Nigella.com. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  11. ↑ "Olivia Potts". The Spectator. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  12. 1 2 "Celebrated food writer Olivia Potts joins the Confidentials.com team". Confidentials. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  13. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - The Museum of Curiosity, Series 17, Episode 2". BBC. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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