It’s all GREEK!

From a young age Demi Deruyter loved everything about food. “Coming from a Greek family, I suppose, I didn’t have a choice,” she laughs. For her 16th birthday, she was given a Kenwood Chef with all the attachments and a recipe book, and has cooked happily ever since.

“My father, a self-taught cook, was a huge inspiration,” she says. “When he was alive, we spent summer holidays with him in Cyprus and he and I would plan our meals, the ingredients we needed and who would cook what. It was so special.”

While working in the retail food industry for one of the largest suppliers of phyllo pastry, Demi realised there was an opportunity to teach consumers how to use phyllo, and gave many of the company’s cooking demonstrations. Then, about 10 years ago, she left the food industry and bought a nursery school. “Being with small children and watching them