Practical Self Sufficiency

James Strawbridge (Author)

James Strawbridge is a Cornish chef, food photographer and writer. As a chef James creates recipes and develops new products for food brands. Plus as a photographer James shoots and styles the recipes he’s developed for social media, websites and his books. James works with a range of food clients across the southwest delivering innovative content from his home studio. He is passionate about cooking seasonally with local produce.

James presented ‘The Hungry Sailors’ (ITV) and ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’ (BBC) on television, and makes appearances on ‘Escape to the Chateau’ on Channel 4. When not cooking or shooting photos, James can be found gig rowing, gardening or painting. James’ first cookbook The Artisan Kitchen, also DK, is shortlisted for the General Cookbook Award at the Guild of Food Writers 2021 Awards.

Dick Strawbridge (Author)

Born in Burma and brought up in Northern Ireland, Dick Strawbridge has had more than twenty years’ distinguished service in the army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. In 1993 he was awarded an MBE. Dick is regularly on screen, appearing in many television programmes including Planet Earth Challenge, Coast, The Reinventors, The Big Idea, Planet Mechanics and Scrapheap Challenge.