Rose Prince (writer)

Rose Prince (born 4 December 1962) is a food writer, author, cook and activist. Her writing career did not start until her mid thirties. Previously she had worked as a chef and the cook in the Notting Hill specialist bookshop, Books for Cooks. She worked there with Clarissa Dixon Wright. She was the in-house cook at The Spectator magazine for seven years.
She has a weekly column in The Daily Telegraph. Her columns are widely syndicated. She also has a monthly column in the Catholic weekly, The Tablet (although herself an Anglican she is married to a Catholic). She is a prolific writer and contributes to The Daily Mail, The Spectator, The Times, and Sunday Telegraph. For three years she had a column on The Daily Express. In 2000 she produced a two-part biopic about the food writer, Elizabeth David for British broadcaster Channel 4 which also aired in Australia.
She contributes regularly to BBC Radio 4's The Food Programm and was a judge for its Food and Farming Awards in 2009. She was a member of the House of Lords Committee of Inquiry into the meat industry in 2000. She was the winner of a Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award in 2001 and in 2009 was named by Vogue magazine as one of the most inspirational women in Britain.
She is married to Dominic Prince, a fellow journalist and sometime amateur jockey and they have two children, Jack and Lara. They live in London and Dorset and Prince lists 'lunch, wine, reading and horseracing' as her recreations in Who's Who.

In a blind tasting test conducted by The Daily Mail she was humiliated. She repeatedly guessed that cheap wines were expensive, and vice versa, guessing, for example, that an £8.99 supermarket bottle cost £65, another £8.99 bottle cost £100 and an £11.99 supermarket bottle "must be the super-expensive" one costing £595. The participants were told in advance that one bottle cost £595. Prince's description of the £595 wine was, "porky, salty and disappointing" and she said that she "couldn't swallow more than half a glass".

• The New English Kitchen. 2005. 
• The Savvy Shopper. 2006. 
• The New English Table. 2008. 
• The Good Food Producers Guide. 2010. 
• Kitchenella. Fourth Estate. 2010. ISBN 978-0-00-732887-1.