Lorraine Pascale

Lorraine Pascale (born 17 November 1972) is a British TV chef and USA Food Network host and former model, best known for selling almost one million books in the UK alone. Quotes My daughter, who's 15, gets lovely food. She loves truffles, fish and meat and says when it's not the best quality. I just cooked a meal with her over the net. She was in Ireland with her father and I helped her through a recipe virtually. I love the TV, love the books, and I've got lots of ideas but they're not consolidated. I'm going with the flow. I'm taking the next month off, although I've just signed with Simon Fuller [creator of Pop Idol] and am meeting him in LA next week. I was always, always eating and I'd spend all my pocket money on chocolate brownies. So people called me "hollow legs", because they couldn't understand where it went. Since I've become known for cooking on TV, some hecklers in the street – women – say, "You can't be eating that food!", which I think is interesting, because not only am I shown eating but I'm trying out seven or eight recipes a day. I'm a dustbin on set. The most influential cook has been my adoptive dad. He was a language teacher, travelled extensively and was passionate about food. But I'd never cooked side by side with him until recently, for my TV show. He made garlic potatoes, while I made burgers. My adoptive mother worked nights, so I was a latch-key kid and cooked from the age of seven or eight. But it was really just heating up what she'd left in the fridge. French bread pizzas with oven chips, fish cakes with oven chips, everything was with chips. The first food I remember in life was Shredded Wheat. I always ate three of them, dry, without milk. Apparently when I came to my adoptive family at 18 months old I wouldn't go near milk. I still eat dried cereal today. Lorraine Pascale: 'I spent all my pocket money on chocolate brownies';By John Hind on 17 Aug 2012 External links Category:Television presenters Category:chefs Category:Living people Category:1972 births Category:Women from England Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:People from London