Books By Nicole Pisani, Joanna Weinberg - Author

Nicole Pisani is the co-founder and Executive Head Chef of Chefs in Schools. She is the former Head Chef at Ottolenghi’s NOPI having previously cooked at The Modern Pantry amongst other notable restaurants. She took on the role of Head Chef at Gayhurst Primary School in 2013 where she fell in love with feeding children and developed her mission to improve children’s relationships with food. She has gone on to share her discoveries and training programmes with schools across London and beyond as well as being integral to the food education programme at the Hackney School of Food. She is the author of Magic Soup and Salt, Butter, Bones.

Joanna Weinberg is a cookery writer, columnist and author of How to Feed Your Friends with Relish and Cooking for Real Life. She has worked closely with the co-founders to create the Chefs in Schools from its birth. She lives in Somerset with her family, a greedy dog, a shy cat and an out-of-control vegetable garden. 

Chefs in Schools is a charity that operates in over 80 schools, feeding more than 30,000 pupils every school day. Its mission is to teach children to love and understand real food cooked from fresh ingredients, and to inspire them not just to eat it, but to choose it, and to learn to cook it themselves. The team trains school kitchen teams to improve their food and to teach pupils to cook. They are supported and endorsed by renowned chefs and food campaigners including Thomasina Miers, Yotam Ottolenghi, Henry Dimbleby and Prue Leith, many of whom have contributed to the book