Ed Smith (@rocketandsquash) is an award-winning food and recipe writer. After leaving a career as a lawyer for a life in food, he trained as a chef, worked briefly in restaurants and pop-ups, and now cooks, consults, develops recipes, writes and creates.


Ed's acclaimed cookbooks include Good Eggs, Crave, On the Side and The Borough Market Cookbook. He regularly contributes recipes to Waitrose Weekend and Waitrose Food Magazine, and has written for all major UK recipe supplements, magazines and online food platforms.