Joudie Kalla

Joudie Kalla is author of highly-praised cookbooks Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen and Baladi Palestine: A Celebration of Food from Land and Sea. She has been working as a chef for over 18 years. She trained at London’s prestigious Leith’s School of Food and Wine and has worked at restaurants such as Pengelley’s, Daphne’s, and Papillon. She has been running her own private catering company for over eight years and holds regular sold out supper clubs. She also ran a hugely popular deli, Baity Kitchen, for three years and hosted Palestinian-themed dinners for Jamie Oliver's Fifteen charity.