Chantal Symons Author

John is co-founder of LEON, which now has 69 restaurants (including in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Oslo). He wrote LEON Naturally Fast Food with Henry Dimbleby, LEON Family & Friends with Kay Plunkett-Hogge, LEON Happy Salads and LEON Fast & Free with Jane Baxter and LEON Happy Soups, LEON Happy One-pot Cooking, LEON Fast Vegan, LEON Happy Curries and LEON Happy Fast Food with Rebecca Seal. He thinks that our relationship with food should be positive and joyous and that we need to listen more carefully to our gut, eat more good fats and less sugar. Rebecca has written about food and drink for the Financial Times, Evening Standard, the Observer, the Guardian, Red and The Sunday Times. Her most recent - and first non-food book - is called SOLO: How To Work Alone (And Not Lose Your Mind). Her cookbooks include Istanbul: Recipes from the heart of Turkey and Lisbon: Recipes from the heart of Portugal, as well as co-authoring LEON Happy Soups, LEON Happy One-pot Cooking, LEON Fast Vegan, LEON Happy Curries, LEON Happy Fast Food and LEON Happy Guts with John Vincent and LEON Happy One-pot Vegetarian with Chantal Symons. She lives in London with her husband and two small daughters. Chantal's passion for cooking was ignited when, as a teenager, she was diagnosed as allergic to dairy, eggs and wheat. She believes everyone should take joy and satisfaction from food and so she specializes in free-from cooking. Chantal has worked as a personal chef, caterer, restaurateur and in food product development. She was the development chef at LEON for two years, creating their bestselling rice box. She is co-author, with Rebecca Seal and John Vincent, of LEON Fast Vegan.