Rachel Khoo (
Chinese
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: 邱瑞秋; born 28 August 1980
[.]) is a British cook, author, and broadcaster who has hosted and co-hosted television cooking shows on the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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,
Food Network
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, and
Netflix
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.
Early life
Khoo was born in
Croydon
Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extens ...
,
South London
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. She has a younger brother named Michael and attended primary school in
Bromley
Bromley is a large town in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley. It is south-east of Charing Cross, and had an estimated population of 87,889 as of 2011.
Originally part of Kent, Bromley became a market town, char ...
.
Her paternal family were Chinese immigrants to
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
and were part of the
Khoo Kongsi
The Khoo Kongsi is a large Chinese clanhouse with elaborate and highly ornamented architecture, a mark of the dominant presence of the Chinese in Penang, Malaysia. The famous Khoo Kongsi is the grandest clan temple in the country. It is also on ...
clanhouse in
George Town, Penang
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. Her father is
Malaysian Chinese
Malaysian Chinese (; Malay: ''Orang Cina Malaysia''), alternatively Chinese Malaysians, are Malaysian citizens of Han Chinese descent. They form the second largest ethnic group after the Malay majority constituting 22.4% of the Malaysian p ...
and emigrated to the UK from
Ipoh
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Perak
Perak () is a state of Malaysia on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula. Perak has land borders with the Malaysian states of Kedah to the north, Penang to the northwest, Kelantan and Pahang to the east, and Selangor to the south. Thailand's ...
, at age 16 in 1968. He later met and married her mother, an
Austrian native.
When Khoo was 12, her father's job in IT took the family to
Bavaria
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, where they lived in the countryside outside
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...
for four years. They returned to the UK when she was 16.
She attended
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Central Saint Martins is a public tertiary art school in London, England. It is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London. It offers full-time courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and a variety of sho ...
in London, and earned a degree in art and design.
Career
Early career
After graduating from university, Khoo worked in
public relations
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception. ...
for the shirt-maker
Thomas Pink
Thomas Pink Limited is a British shirt-maker. It was established in London in 1984 by three Irish brothers – James, Peter and John Mullen. From 1999 it was part of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy group. In 2018 it lost £23.5 million. The c ...
for two years.
Looking for "adventure" in her life and with no knowledge of French, she quit her job and took a three-month patisserie course at
Le Cordon Bleu
Le Cordon Bleu (French for " The Blue Ribbon") is an international network of hospitality and culinary schools teaching French '' haute cuisine''. Its educational focuses are hospitality management, culinary arts, and gastronomy. The institut ...
in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...
in 2006. While living in Paris, she worked part-time as an au pair and sold perfume at
Printemps
Printemps (; meaning "springtime" in French) is a French department store chain (french: grand magasin, links=no, literally "big store"). The Printemps stores focus on beauty, lifestyle, fashion, accessories, and men's wear. The Printemps w ...
, an upscale department store. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu, she worked at La Cocotte, a Parisian cookbook store and café, where she ran baking workshops and served as the store's pastry chef.
In 2010, Khoo received her first publishing deal for two French-language cookery books: ' and ', published by Marabout. Both were later translated into English, as ''Rachel Khoo's Muesli and Granola'' and ''Rachel Khoo's Sweet and Savory Pâtés''. During this time, she also worked briefly in Germany as a freelancer for
Volkswagen
Volkswagen (),English: , . abbreviated as VW (), is a German motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the Nazi Party and revived into a global brand post ...
, where she ran food-related events.
After successfully pitching UK publishers her concept for a new cookbook, Khoo opened a small restaurant to test recipes for her first English-language cookbook, ''The Little Paris Kitchen''. She prepared and served food from her Paris flat in the
Belleville neighbourhood, accommodating just two diners at a time. Using social media to advertise the restaurant, she quickly attracted a large fan base.
Later, the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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commissioned ''The Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo,'' her first TV series. Her restaurant closed before production began on the series. The six-episode series was filmed in Khoo's Paris kitchen and around the city. It began airing on British TV on 19 March 2012. Eventually, the series was aired in international markets.
The book ''The Little Paris Kitchen'' was released in 2012. It has been translated into several languages. The book became a bestseller, selling more than 120,000 copies. Each edition of the television series was watched by over 1.5 million viewers in the UK.
2013 to 2016
Khoo released her second English-language cookbook, ''My Little French Kitchen'', chronicling her travels across France, in September 2013, published by Michael Joseph. ''My Little French Kitchen'' sold upwards of 1,000 copies a week.
In 2014, she completed filming two new cooking series for
BBC Worldwide
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: ''Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London'' and ''Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook''. Both series aired in the UK and internationally. In ''Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook'', she visited various European and Eurasian cities, including Stockholm and Istanbul, and cooked dishes inspired by her travels.
Her cookbook, ''Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook'', was released in the UK on 12 February 2015.
In November 2014, she travelled to Malaysia to film an episode of the series ''A Cook Abroad''.
On 9 March 2015, BBC television aired ''A Cook Abroad: Rachel Khoo's Malaysia'', where she visited the home of her father's extended family and explored the cuisine of the country.
Khoo's fourth television series, ''Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: Melbourne'', premiered in Australia on 23 July 2015 on the network SBS.
In February 2016, she was announced as a new judge on the Australian TV cooking competition
''My Kitchen Rules'', for the series' 7th season. Khoo filmed the programme in 2015 while travelling throughout Australia. The new season began airing on
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australi ...
beginning on 1 February 2016. Khoo appears in 6 episodes of the program.
Khoo launched ''Khoollect'', a lifestyle-, fashion- and food-oriented online blog in February 2016. The blog is defunct as of 2020.
In April 2016, Khoo filmed ''
Zumbo's Just Desserts
''Zumbo's Just Desserts'' is an Australian baking reality competition television program on the Seven Network. The program was developed by the creators of ''My Kitchen Rules'', and is hosted by Adriano Zumbo and Rachel Khoo, with Gigi Falanga a ...
'' in Sydney, alongside pastry chef
Adriano Zumbo
Adriano Zumbo (born 6 November 1981) is an Australian pâtissier and television presenter. He opened his first patisserie in 2007 before rising to prominence as a frequent guest on ''MasterChef Australia.'' Zumbo is the titular host of the Austra ...
. The television series was commissioned by the Seven Network, and Khoo served as one of the judges. The programme premiered in Australia on 22 August 2016 and streamed on
Netflix
Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a ...
in the U.S. in 2018.
2018 to present
Her sixth cookbook, ''The Little Swedish Kitchen'', was released on 26 July 2018.
In 2018, Khoo began filming her new television series, ''My Swedish Kitchen'', in the Swedish countryside. The programme features recipes from the cookbook'. The show premiered for Food Network UK on 22 August 2019. It is expected to air in Germany, Australia and New Zealand, and on BBC Asia.
On 7 February 2021, it was announced Rachel Khoo would be joining as a new judge on
Great British Menu
''Great British Menu'' is a BBC television series in which top British chefs compete for the chance to cook one course of a four-course banquet.
Format
Series one and two were presented by Jennie Bond, the former BBC Royal correspondent, whe ...
when the series returned in spring 2021.
Personal life
In 2006, Khoo moved to Paris, where she lived for eight years. In 2014, she returned to London, settling in
Hoxton
Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, England. As a part of Shoreditch, it is often considered to be part of the East End – the historic core of wider East London. It was historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. It l ...
,
a district of
Hackney and then moved to
Stockholm in 2016. She previously owned a flat in
Kensal Green
Kensal Green is an area in north-west London. It lies mainly in the London Borough of Brent, with a small part to the south within London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Kensington and Chelsea. Kensal Green is located on the Harrow Road, a ...
in north-west London, which served as the headquarters of her now-defunct lifestyle blog/studio, Khoolect.
[ She speaks English, French, German and some Swedish.]
In 2014, she became engaged to Swedish man Robert Wiktorin, and they married in 2015. She gave birth to her first child, a boy, in 2016. Her second child, also a boy, was born in early 2019.
Filmography
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External links
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Khoocollect
BBC - Food - Chefs : Rachel Khoo recipes
at BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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Rachel Khoo's Kitchen Notebook: London
on BBC Lifestyle, Nordic
Little Paris Kitchen: Cooking with Rachel Khoo
on the Cooking Channel
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Talent Agency Profile
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1980 births
Alumni of Central Saint Martins
Alumni of Le Cordon Bleu
BBC people
English chefs
English expatriates in France
English expatriates in Sweden
English people of Austrian descent
English people of Chinese descent
English people of Malaysian descent
British food writers
Living people
People from Croydon
British television chefs
Women chefs
Women food writers
Women cookbook writers