With over a decade in broadcasting and teaching, Rosemary Shrager is an exceptionally talented and versatile chef. Passionate about food she believes mealtimes are a vital part of family life.

In her Good Food Channel series Kitchen Showdown Rosemary takes families who rely on ready-meals and takeaways back into the kitchen for an intensive cookery course.

Her professional career includes stints with Pierre Koffman at the celebrated Tante Claire restaurant in London and with Jean-Christophe Novelli. She was Head Chef at Amhuinnsuidhe Castle from 1998 till 2002 and now runs her own cookery courses at Swinton Park, a castle hotel in the Yorkshire Dales (and featured in Kitchen Showdown).

She has appeared in ITV 1's Ladette to Lady, Mind Your Manners on Channel 4, Rosemary - Castle Cook and Rosemary on the Road on Channel Five and Rosemary: Queen of the Kitchen on Discovery USA.

Books
School for Cooks, Dorling Kindersley, Aug 2009
Rosemary Castle Cook, Adelphi Publishers, Aug 2009
Rosemary: Castle Cook, Everyman's Library, 2001