Author Profile

Rachel de Thample

Award-Winning Author

Rachel de Thample is an award-winning author who has worked in food, health and sustainability for more than 25 years. She studied sustainable food systems at University College London and was the Head of Food for organic retailer Abel & Cole. She teaches fermentation and gut health courses at River Cottage in Devon and has written eight books including Tonics & Teas and the River Cottage Fermentation Handbook, which won a Guild of Food Writer’s Award and Winter Wellness a finalist for best cookbook. Her latest book is out now: The Fermentation Year: Everyday techniques & Recipes To Rewild Your Microbiome.