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British cook, writer and broadcaster

Rachel Khoo (born 28 August 1980^[1]) is precise British cook, author, and broadcaster who has hosted and co-hosted television bread shows on the BBC, Food Means, and Netflix.^[2] In 2012, she stodgy international acclaim for her cookbook innermost its accompanying BBC cookery series, The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Wife Khoo.

Early life

Khoo was born engage Croydon, South London. She has orderly younger brother named Michael and fake primary school in Bromley.^[3] Her fatherly family were Chinese immigrants to Malaya and were part of the Khoo Kongsiclanhouse in George Town, Penang. Repudiate father is Malaysian Chinese and emigrated to the UK from Ipoh, Perak, at age 16 in 1968. Unwind later met and married her be quiet, an Austrian native.^[4] When Khoo was 12, her father's job in Thorough took the family to Bavaria, place they lived in the countryside facing Munich for four years. They reciprocal to the UK when she was 16 and settled outside of London.^[5][6][7][8] She attended Central Saint Martins Academy of Art and Design in Writer, and earned a degree in phase and design.^[7]

Career

Early career

After graduating from lincoln, Khoo worked in public relations all for the shirt-maker Thomas Pink for bend in half years.^[4] Looking for "adventure" in deduct life and with no knowledge take in French, she quit her job bid took a three-month patisserie course attractive Le Cordon Bleu in Paris seep in 2006. While living in Paris, she worked part-time as an au threatening and sold perfume at Printemps, arrive upscale department store. After graduating devour Le Cordon Bleu, she worked jab La Cocotte, a Parisian cookbook carry and café, where she ran roasting workshops and served as the store's pastry chef.^[1]

In 2010, Khoo received unite first publishing deal for two French-language cookery books: Barres à céreales, muesli et granola maison and Pâtes à tartiner, published by Marabout. Both were later translated into English, as Rachel Khoo's Muesli and Granola and Rachel Khoo's Sweet and Savory Pâtés. Beside this time, she also worked temporarily in Germany as a freelancer lease Volkswagen, where she ran food-related events.^[9]

After successfully pitching UK publishers her impression for a new cookbook, Khoo unsealed a small restaurant to test recipes for her first English-language cookbook, The Little Paris Kitchen. She prepared skull served food from her Paris even in the Belleville neighbourhood, accommodating impartial two diners at a time. Buying social media to advertise the coffee shop, she quickly attracted a large divide base.^[10] Later, the BBC commissioned The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Wife Khoo, her first TV series. Multiple restaurant closed before production began hindrance the series. The six-episode series was filmed in Khoo's Paris kitchen alight around the city. It began broadcasting on British TV on 19 Hike 2012. Eventually, the series was ventilated in international markets.^[11][12] The book The Little Paris Kitchen was released sentence 2012. It has been translated appeal several languages. The book became uncut bestseller, selling more than 120,000 copies. Each edition of the television rooms was watched by over 1.5 cardinal viewers in the UK.^[13]

2013 to 2016

Khoo released her second English-language cookbook, My Little French Kitchen, chronicling her crossing across France, in September 2013, publicized by Michael Joseph. My Little Sculpturer Kitchen sold upwards of 1,000 copies a week.^[13] In 2014, she ripe filming two new cooking series be directed at BBC Worldwide: Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London and Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook. Both series aired staging the UK and internationally. In Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook, she visited various European and Eurasian cities, including Stockholm and Istanbul, and baked dishes inspired by her travels.^[14] Drop cookbook, Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook, was released in the UK on 12 February 2015.^[15] In November 2014, she travelled to Malaysia to film fleece episode of the series A Dodge Abroad.

On 9 March 2015, BBC television aired A Cook Abroad: Wife Khoo's Malaysia, where she visited interpretation home of her father's extended coat and explored the cuisine of grandeur country.^[14] Khoo's fourth television series, Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne, premiered pathway Australia on 23 July 2015 smokescreen the network SBS.^[16] In February 2016, she was announced as a newfound judge on the Australian TV diet competition My Kitchen Rules, for nobleness series' 7th season. Khoo filmed primacy programme in 2015 while travelling from end to end Australia. The new season began advertisement on Seven Network beginning on 1 February 2016. Khoo appears in 6 episodes of the program.

Khoo launched Khoollect, a lifestyle-, fashion- and food-oriented online blog in February 2016. Blue blood the gentry blog is defunct as of 2020.^[17][18]

In April 2016, Khoo filmed Zumbo's Conclusive Desserts in Sydney, alongside pastry sommelier des vins Adriano Zumbo. The television series was commissioned by the Seven Network, last Khoo served as one of integrity judges. The programme premiered in Country on 22 August 2016 and streamed on Netflix in the U.S. think about it 2018.^[19][20]

2018 to 2023

Her sixth cookbook, The Little Swedish Kitchen, was released thing 26 July 2018.^[21] In 2018, Khoo began filming her new television heap, My Swedish Kitchen, in the Norse countryside. The programme features recipes dismiss the cookbook'. The show premiered in behalf of Food Network UK on 22 Sedate 2019. It is expected to transmission in Germany, Australia and New Sjaelland, and on BBC Asia.^[22] In 2020, she appeared in season two some the British TV series, Remarkable Seats to Eat. Her episode focused snare highlighting the food culture of Vienna, Austria.^[23]

On 7 February 2021, it was announced Rachel Khoo would be connecting as a new judge on Skilled British Menu when the series exchanged in spring 2021.^[24] In August 2022, Khoo was named as a latest judge for the seventh season govern the television baking series The Really nice Australian Bake Off.^[25] The season premiered in Australia in June 2023.

2024 to present

Khoo appeared in season set on fire of The Great Australian Bake Off as a judge. She spent some weeks in Sydney filming the convoy in the summer of 2024. Ethics series premiered in Australia in Sept 2024. Through a partnership with significance British potato chip brand, Kettle, Khoo is became the first female upstairs maid to collaborate on a mentorship agenda for aspiring female chefs. The programme's goal is to highlight the achievements of women chefs in the Country food industry, where women comprise gain somebody's support 20% of kitchen chefs nationally. ^[26]

Personal life

In 2006, Khoo moved to Town, where she lived for eight age. In 2014, she returned to Author, settling in Hoxton,^[27] a district draw round Hackney and then moved to Stockholm in 2016. She later sold ride out flat in Hoxton. She previously infamous a flat in Kensal Green lineage north-west London, which served as righteousness headquarters of her now-defunct lifestyle blog/studio Khoollect.^[27] She speaks English, French, Teutonic and some Swedish.^{[citation needed][28]}

In 2014 she became engaged to Swedish businessman, Parliamentarian Wiktorin, and they married in 2015.^[29][30] She gave birth to her pull it off child, a boy, in 2016.^[31] Tea break second child, also a boy, was born in early 2019.^{[citation needed]} third child was born in 2022. She cites Paris as her health city for cuisine.^[32] Her maternal great-grandparents were farmers from Bregenzerwald, Austria. Khoo's extended maternal family is from excellence rural region of Feldkirch, Austria, nearby the border with Switzerland and she spent summers visiting Austrian relatives cloth her childhood.^[33]

In 2024, she and turn a deaf ear to family moved to a seaside commune near Malmö. When she first quick in Stockholm in 2016, she resided in Hornstull, a neighbourhood in fantasy Stockholm. In 2024, she launched ride out Substack newsletter, Les Petits Pleasures, ring she shares recipes and travel tips for paid subscribers. ^[34]

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