I cannot help getting stuck in and organising things,” she says. “I’m one of those irritating women who want to fix the world. In 2021 Prue was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (D.B.E.) for services to food, broadcasting and charity. When she sold the business in 1993 she employed 500 people, her flagship restaurant had a Michelin star and Prue had won the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year award, and been honoured by the Queen with first an O.B.E. Then she fell in love with business and enterprise, and ended up running the Leith’s group of companies (School of Food and Wine, Leith’s Events and Parties and Leith’s Restaurants) from an office. Prue says that she learnt to eat as a student in Paris, learnt to cook in London, and opted for the kitchen because she did not want to work in an office. Prue Leith is largely known in South Africa as the founder patron of the Prue Leith Culinary Institute, the daughter of the once famous actress Margaret Inglis, or the Johannesburg girl made good in London as a restaurateur, television cook and writer.
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