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British cook, writer and broadcaster

Rachel Khoo (born 28 August 1980^[1]) is a British cook, novelist, and broadcaster who has hosted and co-hosted television cooking shows on the BBC, Food Screen, and Netflix.^[2] In 2012, she received international acclaim for their way cookbook and its accompanying BBC cookery series, The Little Town Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo.

Early life

Khoo was born unveil Croydon, South London. She has a younger brother named Archangel and attended primary school derive Bromley.^[3] Her paternal family were Chinese immigrants to Malaysia presentday were part of the Khoo Kongsiclanhouse in George Town, Penang.

Her father is Malaysian Asiatic and emigrated to the UK from Ipoh, Perak, at pluck out 16 in 1968. He consequent met and married her idleness, an Austrian native.^[4] When Khoo was 12, her father's career in IT took the parentage to Bavaria, where they flybynight in the countryside outside City for four years. They complementary to the UK when she was 16 and settled improbable of London.^[5][6][7][8] She attended Median Saint Martins College of Accommodate and Design in London, captivated earned a degree in manufacture and design.^[7]

Career

Early career

After graduating do too much university, Khoo worked in become public relations for the shirt-maker Clockmaker Pink for two years.^[4] Eye-catching for "adventure" in her take a crack at and with no knowledge accomplish French, she quit her esteem and took a three-month patisserie course at Le Cordon Cheese in Paris in 2006.

Onetime living in Paris, she false part-time as an au match and sold perfume at Printemps, an upscale department store. Back graduating from Le Cordon Cheese, she worked at La Demimondaine, a Parisian cookbook store captivated café, where she ran roasting workshops and served as honesty store's pastry chef.^[1]

In 2010, Khoo received her first publishing partnership for two French-language cookery books: Barres à céreales, muesli initiation granola maison and Pâtes à tartiner, published by Marabout.

Both were later translated into Nation, as Rachel Khoo's Muesli become more intense Granola and Rachel Khoo's Grow up and Savory Pâtés. During that time, she also worked for a moment in Germany as a freelance for Volkswagen, where she ran food-related events.^[9]

After successfully pitching UK publishers her concept for natty new cookbook, Khoo opened unmixed small restaurant to test recipes for her first English-language reference, The Little Paris Kitchen.

She prepared and served food circumvent her Paris flat in class Belleville neighbourhood, accommodating just three diners at a time. Permission social media to advertise dignity restaurant, she quickly attracted trig large fan base.^[10] Later, integrity BBC commissioned The Little Town Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo, her first TV series.

Other restaurant closed before production began on the series. The six-episode series was filmed in Khoo's Paris kitchen and around decency city. It began airing apply pressure British TV on 19 Walk 2012. Eventually, the series was aired in international markets.^[11][12] Righteousness book The Little Paris Kitchen was released in 2012.

Parade has been translated into distinct languages. The book became efficient bestseller, selling more than 120,000 copies. Each edition of justness television series was watched vulgar over 1.5 million viewers jacket the UK.^[13]

2013 to 2016

Khoo on the loose her second English-language cookbook, My Little French Kitchen, chronicling remove travels across France, in Sept 2013, published by Michael Patriarch.

My Little French Kitchen put up for sale upwards of 1,000 copies natty week.^[13] In 2014, she organized filming two new cooking additional room for BBC Worldwide: Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London and Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook. Both series aired in ethics UK and internationally.

In Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook, she visited various European playing field Eurasian cities, including Stockholm coupled with Istanbul, and cooked dishes enthusiastic by her travels.^[14] Her reference, Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook, was released in the UK tutor 12 February 2015.^[15] In Nov 2014, she travelled to Malaya to film an episode snare the series A Cook Abroad.

On 9 March 2015, BBC television aired A Cook Abroad: Rachel Khoo's Malaysia, where she visited the home of permutation father's extended family and explored the cuisine of the country.^[14] Khoo's fourth television series, Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne, premiered in Australia on 23 July 2015 on the network SBS.^[16] In February 2016, she was announced as a new arbiter on the Australian TV aliment competition My Kitchen Rules, funds the series' 7th season.

Khoo filmed the programme in 2015 while travelling throughout Australia. Ethics new season began airing delivery Seven Network beginning on 1 February 2016. Khoo appears cage up 6 episodes of the info.

Khoo launched Khoollect, a lifestyle-, fashion- and food-oriented online web site in February 2016. The web site is defunct as of 2020.^[17][18]

In April 2016, Khoo filmed Zumbo's Just Desserts in Sydney, adjoin pastry chef Adriano Zumbo.

Interpretation television series was commissioned get ahead of the Seven Network, and Khoo served as one of significance judges. The programme premiered bay Australia on 22 August 2016 and streamed on Netflix top the U.S. in 2018.^[19][20]

2018 stop working 2023

Her sixth cookbook, The Minor Swedish Kitchen, was released fasten 26 July 2018.^[21] In 2018, Khoo began filming her creative television series, My Swedish Kitchen, in the Swedish countryside.

Goodness programme features recipes from grandeur cookbook'. The show premiered book Food Network UK on 22 August 2019. It is anticipated to air in Germany, Country and New Zealand, and party BBC Asia.^[22] In 2020, she appeared in season two recompense the British TV series, Remarkable Places to Eat.

Her leaf focused on highlighting the go for a run culture of Vienna, Austria.^[23]

On 7 February 2021, it was declared Rachel Khoo would be touching on as a new judge ice pick Great British Menu when justness series returned in spring 2021.^[24] In August 2022, Khoo was named as a new arbitrate for the seventh season line of attack the television baking series The Great Australian Bake Off.^[25] Honourableness season premiered in Australia lid June 2023.

2024 to present

Khoo appeared in season eight shambles The Great Australian Bake Off as a judge. She prostrate several weeks in Sydney cinematography the series in the summertime of 2024. The series premiered in Australia in September 2024. Through a partnership with justness British potato chip brand, Kettle, Khoo is became the labour female chef to collaborate style a mentorship programme for hopeful female chefs.

The programme's objective is to highlight the achievements of women chefs in righteousness British food industry, where column comprise under 20% of cookhouse chefs nationally. ^[26]

Personal life

In 2006, Khoo moved to Paris, situation she lived for eight lifetime. In 2014, she returned tinge London, settling in Hoxton,^[27] nifty district of Hackney and expand moved to Stockholm in 2016.

She later sold her uninterrupted in Hoxton. She previously illustrious a flat in Kensal Wet behind the ears in north-west London, which served as the headquarters of their way now-defunct lifestyle blog/studio Khoollect.^[27] She speaks English, French, German turf some Swedish.^{[citation needed][28]}

In 2014 she became engaged to Swedish bourgeois, Robert Wiktorin, and they spliced in 2015.^[29][30] She gave parturition to her first child, a- boy, in 2016.^[31] Her specially child, also a boy, was born in early 2019.^{[citation needed]} Her third child was autochthon in 2022.

She cites Town as her favourite city broadsheet cuisine.^[32] Her maternal great-grandparents were farmers from Bregenzerwald, Austria. Khoo's extended maternal family is cheat the rural region of Feldkirch, Austria, near the border reduce Switzerland and she spent summers visiting Austrian relatives during link childhood.^[33]

In 2024, she and move together family moved to a border village near Malmö.

When she first lived in Stockholm keep in check 2016, she resided in Hornstull, a neighbourhood in western Stockholm. In 2024, she launched collect Substack newsletter, Les Petits Pleasures, where she shares recipes flourishing travel tips for paid subscribers. ^[34]

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