Gizzi Erskine

Dubbed ‘the rock ‘n’roll chef’, Gizzi Erskine is a food writer, television presenter and chef. Trained at Leith’s School of Food and Wine, she has starred in Channel 4’s Cook Yourself Thin, is the author of the bestselling Gizzi’s Kitchen Magic, and is a regular contributor to This Morning, Sky One’s Taste, Marie Claire, Grazia and In Style.

Gizzi has worked with Unity on a number of delectable projects, from encouraging hardened urbanites to grow their own herbs for Cafédirect, to styling a Britpop themed tea-party for Pearl Lowe and American Elle.

Explain fun in a word?
Discombobulated.

What’s your specialist subject in Mastermind?
Sharks. I could dazzle you/scare you with what I know about them. That and Larousse gastronomme.

What’s your hangover cure?
2 nurofen, can of coke, croque Madame And a bloody Mary.

Favourite year to be reincarnated?
1959 and preferably in Don Drapers office.

First single you ever bought?
Star trecking.

Do the Royal Family really attract tourists?
Yes I am a total royalist.

Hoxton or Soho
Hoxton.

What wouldn’t you do for a million pounds?
Eat shit.

What do you sing in the shower?
Day-O by harry belafonte.

Would you rather have the power to beinvisible or the power to read minds?
Read minds.

What was your first pet called?
Seaweed.

Do you have any secret tattoos/piercings?
I used to be a body piercer for 8 years whadda you think?