The Savvy Shopper

by Rose Prince

Inspired by her weekly column in "Telegraph Weekend", this is Rose Prince's guide to buying the tastiest, highest-quality food with peace of mind and a clear conscience. Following the success of "The New English Kitchen", Rose Prince's eye-opening guide to shopping, cooking and eating in a cost-effective and environmentally conscious way is a must-have reference book. Taking the best of Rose's journalism, this guide encourages readers to look for the right qualities in the food they buy, to ask the right questions of food producers and retailers, and to eat better—and with greater awareness of the provenance of their meals. With its easy-to-read format and listings of essential stockists and markets, "The Savvy Shopper" is absolutely essential for anyone who cares about how they shop, cook and eat.

Genres: Food

464 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Rose Prince 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 newspaper. 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, 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 Food Programme 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 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.