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Lehla Eldridge wasborn in England and has worked as an actress, illustrator and waitress, amongst others. Having trained as an actress in London at The Guildhall School, she was awarded a scholarship in 1995 from Twentieth Century Fox to work with various theatre companies around South Africa, and has taken a theatre show to the International Theatre Festival in India.
As a cook, Lehla has spent a significant part of her life in and around kitchens, starting at the age of 14 in a pub kitchen, moving on to London cafés and catering at her father’s summer art schools in Italy, where she learned much about Italian cooking. She has also mastered the art of cooking for large numbers taught to her by her mother.
She currently lives in Cape Town and The South African Illustrated Cookbook is her first book.

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