Kay Plunkett-Hogge is a great cook, and the best - and funniest - drinking partner a girl could want. Always fun, always feisty - she is a tonic. Diana Henry"

Kay Plunkett-Hogge is a cookery writer and broadcaster based in London. A former model agent in New York and London, and a movie co-ordinator in Bangkok and Los Angeles, Kay is the co-author of the bestselling Bryn's Kitchen with the award-winning London chef Bryn Williams, LEON: Family Friends with John Vincent and the Little Leon series with Henry Dimbleby, Claire Ptak and John Vincent. She also worked with US chef Chris Bianco on his forthcoming book and with Hollywood actor Stanley Tucci on his second cookbook, The Tucci Table (Weidenfeld Nicolson). Her acclaimed book, Make Mine a Martini, also published by Mitchell Beazley, was the Financial Times's pick for Drinks Book of the Year 2014 and led to her writing a weekly cocktail column for the Daily Telegraph.