Born and raised in Basingstoke, Romilla graduated from Keele University with a Bachelor’s degree in Law and History. She became a successful solicitor and retired from the legal profession when she became pregnant with her third child.
Following her retirement from the legal profession, Romilla became a parent governor of a local school in Newbury, Berkshire where she currently lives with her husband and four children. She has also undertaken voluntary work in the village and is a key figure of the local community.
For the past three years, she has devoted her time to writing “What’s for Dinner?” an essential cookery bible, divided into weekly sections with a menu and shopping list for each week of the year. Romilla felt that it was knowing what to cook that put most people off going into the kitchen rather than the actual act of cooking. She discovered that parents who relied on convenience food were less likely to pass on basic cookery skills to their children.
Romilla founded the [ Food Education Trust ], a charity dedicated to educating adults and children in the basic skills of cooking. All proceeds from the sale of “What’s for Dinner?” will go to the Food Education Trust and will provide home economic style classes to both adults and children and will supply necessary cooking equipment to schools.
Monisha Bharadwaj