About Angela

Food writer, food consultant and former chef to the rich and famous including Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Angela Gray spent eight years globe trotting with her chef’s kit back in the 80s. Angela returned home to Wales and settled in Cardiff.

There she pursued a slightly different career in the media world. A degree in Food and Consumer Science together with her extensive knowledge of food formed the basis of what has become an amazing culinary adventure. Angela’s passion for food led to her presenting two cookery series for BBC Wales namely, “Hot Stuff” and “More Hot Stuff”, which took the viewing audience on a whistle stop cooks’ tour of Wales. A book followed named after the series, containing all the recipes and anecdotes from the programmes.

Angela also presented a series ‘Overnight Success’, where Angela presented the pros and cons of the hospitality business, offering sound advice and tips for setting up and running your own guest house.

She has been a live guest on UKTV Food Live and took part in the series ‘Flavours of Britain’ with Paul Roseby and presented the Welsh leg of UKTV Food Heroes with Gary Rhodes. For two years she presented a radio series on BBC Wales entitled “My Life on a Plate”, grilling guests like Kim Howells MP, Lowri Turner, Antonio Carluccio, Monty Don, Stephen Bull and John Humphries about what their life and what their favourite menu would consist of.

Angela is a regular visitor to the BBC guesting on the Jamie and Louise show where she cooks up a feast of delicious dishes for a celebrity guest using local ingredients. Angela penned a second book ‘The Welsh Cheese Book’ (Gomer Press) which is a celebration of the wonderful cheeses now available from Wales. This popular little book was recently updated and a second edition printed.

Angela has written many food related articles for newspapers and magazines, and had weekly column at ‘Wales On Sunday’ for two years. Angela also loves cooking in front of a live audience, and is a regular at many festivals around the UK. For the past 11 years she has organized the masterclasses at the Abergavenny food festivals working with the likes of Matt Tebbutt, Sat Baines, Jason Atherton, Stephen Terry, Angela Hartnett, Valentine Warner and many more.
This summer Angela organized and managed the food elements for ‘Wales at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival’. 1.2 million visitors came to the Washington Mall where 130 participants from Wales shared a plethora of Welsh cultural elements from slate splitting to food.

In September Angela completed a new series ‘Packed Lunch’ for BBC Radio Wales.