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Anna Jones

Anna Jones is a London cook and author sharing everyday vegetarian recipes through five cookbooks, @we_are_food and her weekly newsletter.

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Anna’s happenings, collected from public sources, plus her backstory and Starbook, where fans write.

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Overview

Work: Cook, food writer and cookbook author
Home base: Hackney, East London
Training: Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen apprentice programme
First solo cookbook: A Modern Way to Eat, 2014
Latest cookbook: Easy Wins, 2024

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How it started.

Before food became her job, Anna studied economics and worked in finance and PR. At 24, a newspaper article about following your passion prompted her to apply to Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen. She later joined his food team, working on styling, recipes, books and television.

Finding her own voice.

Recipe writing for Innocent helped open the door to her first solo cookbook, A Modern Way to Eat, in 2014. Her books made vegetables the starting point for everyday meals. The Modern Cook’s Year went on to win both the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book Award and the Observer Food Monthly Best New Cookbook award in 2018.

What she cooks now.

Her fifth cookbook, Easy Wins, builds meals around twelve ingredients that bring flavour, including lemons, mustard and tahini. Her weekly newsletter is now the home for new recipes and guest takeovers, following years of writing a recipe column for The Guardian. In June 2026 she marked twelve years since sending her first newsletter.

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Awards

Quotes

I care about whether people are making a great dinner for their families on a Tuesday night.Anna Jones, The Worshipful

Explaining why usefulness and the time available to home cooks shape her recipes.

Trivia

As a child, she experimented with cupcakes and fruit salads before moving on to family meals and lemon mousse.
She starts her day with Lady Grey tea and oat milk.
She prefers a recipe to fit on one page so cooks do not have to keep turning back and forth.
Despite writing so many vegetable recipes, she has said she does not like mushrooms.