Kate Morris

Kate Morris has been involved in foodie things for over 30 years. A BEd in Home Economics was followed by 2 years teaching in London in a classroom equipped with only 4 mains powered mini ovens – no sinks!

Kate then transferred to consumer education, 15 years as staff and freelance home writer and product tester for some of the leading UK women’s magazines – testing anything from ice cream makers to flat pack furniture.

In 2003 she met Sally Brown and they developed courses of pre-school cookery classes – to teach both children and parents or carers simple food preparation skills through healthy recipes devised and developed by them.

The pre-school project extended into after school activities, food curriculum advice, training courses for local authorities, four TV series of i can cook for CBeebies totalling 104 episodes, a book for primary school teachers to help with teaching of food in schools. Then more recently My World Kitchen for CBeebies - a total of 60 episodes.

She recently taught 8 to 14 year olds Cooking and Nutrition in a brand new food room at a local boys school. She also has a Certificate in Human Nutrition with the OU, an MSc in Food Policy (City University) is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health as well as the Guild of Food Writers, and is a trustee of the sensory food education charity Flavour School.

Kate has 2 adult children, both considerably taller than her, and has travelled extensively from as far afield as China, Peru, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. She is a keen leisure runner but somehow has completed in the Great North Run 3 times since 2007, enjoys fair weather sailing in the Mediterranean and skiing in the winter in Europe and Canada.