Jessica Elliott Dennison

Raised in East London by hungry and adventurous parents, Jess has always been obsessed with good food and simple cooking. Her route into having a food career has been self-taught and pretty unconventional. A job in marketing and product development with Jamie Oliver introduced Jess to the world of food writing and styling, leading her to write Salad Feasts and Tin Can Magic, alongside working on commercials, magazines and cookery shows.

Her relaxed, everyday approach to cooking is influenced by warm childhood memories of eating with family and delicious times spent living in Bangkok, Sydney and London.

Jess opened Elliott’s, her much-loved Kitchen and Workshop spaces in Edinburgh as an excuse to make feeding people and having a good chat her main job, alongside writing her books.