Laura Santtini

Fashion forward gastropreneur and food writer Laura Santtini burst onto the UK food scene in September 2009 and instantly set culinary tongues wagging with her debut book Easy Tasty Italian and range of scratch food preparations, Easy Tasty Magic. At the same time the price of gold reached an all time high and her edible gold products made front-page news across the world. Swiftly following her similarly successful Credit Crunch chocolate this further solidified her reputation as a pioneering food-trend expert.

Having candidly gigged the urban groceries of the world Laura has seen her breakthrough Taste #5 Umami Paste settle upon supermarket shelves throughout Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. Grabbing the attention of editors along the way Laura has shown an alternative and vibrant approach to cooking, eating and doing business.

Despite possessing a healthy obsession with flavour, Laura's achievements have not been confined to the food world however. This edgy poet of the palate has similarly captured the attention of fashion titles including Instyle US, Elle Italia and WWD amongst others who have profiled her work.

Flash Cooking, to be published in October, follows on from Laura's successful first book, Easy Tasty Italian, which won the Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book at the 2010 Guild of Food Writers Awards. As we have come to expect from the world's first gastrotherapist, Flash Cooking is not only trend-setting but also thought-provoking. She christens an exciting new cooking genre and delivers a do-able, bite-sized philosophy for living a healthful 80/20 life via a collection of emotionally nutritious tips and recipes. Simply
put, Flash Cooking is where flavour meets wellbeing.