Rachel Roddy
Cook book author
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Life
Roddy grew up in Hertfordshire and would often visit her maternal grandmother's pub in Oldham.[3]
Roddy originally trained as an actor and moved to Italy in 2005 and worked as a waitress while learning Italian.[4][3] She now lives in the Testaccio district of Rome, with her partner and son.[4][1] She began food writing on her blog, Rachel Eats in 2008.[4] She was soon spotted by The Guardian and now writes a weekly column for its Feast supplement.[2]
Books
She is the author of three Italian cookbooks: the André Simeon Memorial Fund Award-winning Five Quarters (published 2015),[1] Two Kitchens (2017),[5] and her latest cookbook, An A–Z of Pasta (2021).[6][7]
Five Quarters was Roddy's first book, published in 2015, and focuses on the food of Rome.[1] It won the André Simeon Memorial Fund Award in 2016.[8]
Two Kitchens looks at the food of her home in Testaccio and also of her partner Vincenzo's hometown of Gela in Sicily.[9]
An A-Z of Pasta, is a cookery book based on various shapes of pasta and the recipes best suited to each.[6]