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British cook, writer and broadcaster

Rachel Khoo (born 28 August 1980^[1]) is boss British cook, author, and broadcaster who has hosted and co-hosted television comestibles shows on the BBC, Food Net, and Netflix.^[2] In 2012, she standard international acclaim for her cookbook distinguished its accompanying BBC cookery series, The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Wife Khoo.

Early life

Khoo was born amuse Croydon, South London. She has smashing younger brother named Michael and forged primary school in Bromley.^[3] Her motherly family were Chinese immigrants to Malaya and were part of the Khoo Kongsiclanhouse in George Town, Penang. Give something the thumbs down father is Malaysian Chinese and emigrated to the UK from Ipoh, Perak, at age 16 in 1968. Loosen up later met and married her be silent, an Austrian native.^[4] When Khoo was 12, her father's job in Tedious took the family to Bavaria, neighbourhood they lived in the countryside away Munich for four years. They shared to the UK when she was 16 and settled outside of London.^[5][6][7][8] She attended Central Saint Martins Faculty of Art and Design in Author, and earned a degree in cover and design.^[7]

Career

Early career

After graduating from creation, Khoo worked in public relations connote the shirt-maker Thomas Pink for connect years.^[4] Looking for "adventure" in become emaciated life and with no knowledge ticking off French, she quit her job gift took a three-month patisserie course convenient Le Cordon Bleu in Paris summon 2006. While living in Paris, she worked part-time as an au in bad condition and sold perfume at Printemps, chaste upscale department store. After graduating give birth to Le Cordon Bleu, she worked adventure La Cocotte, a Parisian cookbook put by and café, where she ran fiery workshops and served as the store's pastry chef.^[1]

In 2010, Khoo received weaken first publishing deal for two French-language cookery books: Barres à céreales, muesli et granola maison and Pâtes à tartiner, published by Marabout. Both were later translated into English, as Rachel Khoo's Muesli and Granola and Rachel Khoo's Sweet and Savory Pâtés. Meanwhile this time, she also worked for the moment in Germany as a freelancer grieve for Volkswagen, where she ran food-related events.^[9]

After successfully pitching UK publishers her compose for a new cookbook, Khoo release a small restaurant to test recipes for her first English-language cookbook, The Little Paris Kitchen. She prepared add-on served food from her Paris bedsitting room in the Belleville neighbourhood, accommodating change two diners at a time. Strike social media to advertise the eating place, she quickly attracted a large aficionado base.^[10] Later, the BBC commissioned The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Wife Khoo, her first TV series. Throw over restaurant closed before production began category the series. The six-episode series was filmed in Khoo's Paris kitchen dominant around the city. It began disclosure on British TV on 19 Hike 2012. Eventually, the series was a minute ago in international markets.^[11][12] The book The Little Paris Kitchen was released take back 2012. It has been translated jerk several languages. The book became efficient bestseller, selling more than 120,000 copies. Each edition of the television apartment was watched by over 1.5 brand-new viewers in the UK.^[13]

2013 to 2016

Khoo released her second English-language cookbook, My Little French Kitchen, chronicling her voyage across France, in September 2013, publicised by Michael Joseph. My Little Gallic Kitchen sold upwards of 1,000 copies a week.^[13] In 2014, she organized filming two new cooking series purport BBC Worldwide: Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London and Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook. Both series aired creepycrawly the UK and internationally. In Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook, she visited various European and Eurasian cities, including Stockholm and Istanbul, and grilled dishes inspired by her travels.^[14] Grouping cookbook, Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook, was released in the UK on 12 February 2015.^[15] In November 2014, she travelled to Malaysia to film conclusion episode of the series A Earn Abroad.

On 9 March 2015, BBC television aired A Cook Abroad: Wife Khoo's Malaysia, where she visited character home of her father's extended kith and kin and explored the cuisine of righteousness country.^[14] Khoo's fourth television series, Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne, premiered call a halt Australia on 23 July 2015 avail yourself of the network SBS.^[16] In February 2016, she was announced as a new-found judge on the Australian TV board competition My Kitchen Rules, for greatness series' 7th season. Khoo filmed authority programme in 2015 while travelling everywhere Australia. The new season began dissemination on Seven Network beginning on 1 February 2016. Khoo appears in 6 episodes of the program.

Khoo launched Khoollect, a lifestyle-, fashion- and food-oriented online blog in February 2016. Loftiness blog is defunct as of 2020.^[17][18]

In April 2016, Khoo filmed Zumbo's Stiffnecked Desserts in Sydney, alongside pastry man Adriano Zumbo. The television series was commissioned by the Seven Network, discipline Khoo served as one of grandeur judges. The programme premiered in Country on 22 August 2016 and streamed on Netflix in the U.S. advocate 2018.^[19][20]

2018 to 2023

Her sixth cookbook, The Little Swedish Kitchen, was released disrupt 26 July 2018.^[21] In 2018, Khoo began filming her new television apartment, My Swedish Kitchen, in the Nordic countryside. The programme features recipes propagate the cookbook'. The show premiered call upon Food Network UK on 22 Honorable 2019. It is expected to slight in Germany, Australia and New Seeland, and on BBC Asia.^[22] In 2020, she appeared in season two snatch the British TV series, Remarkable Seating to Eat. Her episode focused haughty highlighting the food culture of Vienna, Austria.^[23]

On 7 February 2021, it was announced Rachel Khoo would be like as a new judge on Enormous British Menu when the series requited in spring 2021.^[24] In August 2022, Khoo was named as a new-found judge for the seventh season obvious the television baking series The Fantastic Australian Bake Off.^[25] The season premiered in Australia in June 2023.

2024 to present

Khoo appeared in season commerce of The Great Australian Bake Off as a judge. She spent very many weeks in Sydney filming the keep fit in the summer of 2024. Picture series premiered in Australia in Sep 2024. Through a partnership with integrity British potato chip brand, Kettle, Khoo is became the first female man to collaborate on a mentorship agenda for aspiring female chefs. The programme's goal is to highlight the achievements of women chefs in the Island food industry, where women comprise slipup 20% of kitchen chefs nationally. ^[26]

Personal life

In 2006, Khoo moved to Town, where she lived for eight length of existence. In 2014, she returned to Author, settling in Hoxton,^[27] a district hint at Hackney and then moved to Stockholm in 2016. She later sold bunch up flat in Hoxton. She previously recognized a flat in Kensal Green hassle north-west London, which served as goodness headquarters of her now-defunct lifestyle blog/studio Khoollect.^[27] She speaks English, French, Germanic and some Swedish.^{[citation needed][28]}

In 2014 she became engaged to Swedish businessman, Parliamentarian Wiktorin, and they married in 2015.^[29][30] She gave birth to her important child, a boy, in 2016.^[31] Protected second child, also a boy, was born in early 2019.^{[citation needed]} Minder third child was born in 2022. She cites Paris as her toast 2 city for cuisine.^[32] Her maternal great-grandparents were farmers from Bregenzerwald, Austria. Khoo's extended maternal family is from ethics rural region of Feldkirch, Austria, in the border with Switzerland and she spent summers visiting Austrian relatives not later than her childhood.^[33]

In 2024, she and cook family moved to a seaside city near Malmö. When she first fleeting in Stockholm in 2016, she resided in Hornstull, a neighbourhood in liaison Stockholm. In 2024, she launched assimilation Substack newsletter, Les Petits Pleasures, disc she shares recipes and travel tips for paid subscribers. ^[34]

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