Life Kitchen founder Ryan Riley: ‘I’m 30 years old and I’ve been to 50 funerals’
Chef and food writer Ryan Riley says it’s been “incredibly hard” forging a successful career while grieving his mother, who died of cancer when Riley was 20.
The Sunderland-born foodie enrolled on a catering course shortly after his mum passed away but dropped out after one term and decided to pursue food writing instead.
While interning at Sainsbury’s Magazine he had a lightbulb moment inspired by his mother’s experience of losing her sense of taste while going through chemotherapy.
Together with childhood friend Kimberley Duke, he set up , a
