Chantelle Nicholson is a New Zealand chef who has resided in London since 2004. Chef owner o
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All's Well
(formerly of Mare St, E8) and former chef owner of Tredwells (recipient of a green Michelin star for its efforts towards sustainability) and former Group Operations Director for Marcus Wareing Restaurants. In July 2016 Nicholson won Manager of the Year award at the 2016

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. In October 2016 she won Woman of the Year at the inaugural ''

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'' Shine Awards. Nicholson is co-author of

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's cook books ''The Gilbert Scott book of British food'' (selected as the ''Telegraph'' "Cookbook of the week"), ''Nutmeg and Custard'', ''Marcus at Home'' , ''New Classics'' and ''Marcus Everyday''. She did dish development and consulting on the 2015 film ''

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''. In 2019 Nicholson published ''Planted: a chef's show-stopping vegan recipes'', described in ''

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'' as "the ultimate cookbook for food-obsessed vegans". She is neither

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nor

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but has said that "The whole reason I did a plant-based recipe book was that I liked the challenge ... When I looked around to find resources for plant-based cooking at a restaurant level, there were hardly any."

Selected publications

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Philanthropy

Nicholson's charitable causes include cooking for fundraising dinners for Children of the Mountain,

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, The Felix Project, Street Smart, School Food Matters and The Calthorpe Project.

References

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