Jess Elliott Dennison

Book Signing on the 30th August.

Jess Elliott Dennison is a food writer and the founder of Elliott’s. Her work celebrates simple cooking and life in the kitchen. She lives in the Scottish Borders countryside with her husband, son and daughter. Elliots studio is based in Edinburgh and Jess has designed it as an extension of her home. It's where she cooks, writes recipes and teaches. Alongside a calendar of events with visiting artists and food writers, including a partnership programme with the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She hosts her series of cookery demonstration lunches in her space seasonally.

Jess’s work experience has covered all aspects of food, including as a food stylist in Sydney and London where she cooked for TV sets, commercials, magazines and cookbooks. She was part of Jamie Oliver’s team; developing food products and kitchenware, advertising campaigns and global retail partnerships. For 5 years, Jess ran Elliott’s Cafe which was listed on Conde Nast’s Best Edinburgh Restaurant List. She has written 3 books published by Hardie Grant (Penguin Random House).

With this wealth of knowledge she independently published ‘Midweek Recipes’ in August 2024 and her next book in the Elliott’s series, ‘Weekend Recipes’ is out in August 2025.

With chapters of Breakfast, Lunch, Afternoon Baking, Dinner and Pudding, these are the flavours and methods for when work is on pause and there’s more time for connecting with your ingredients, kitchen and company.

There’s a sherbet-y lemon curd for spreading over toast in the morning; roast pepper, charred silverskin onion and Parmesan crostini for midday; and spaghetti and oregano meatballs followed by blackcurrant pavlova with lemon and bay custard for the evening. The whole weekend is here.

We are delighted to be hosting a book signing in store with Jess on the 30th of August. Be sure to join us for this really exciting event. In the meantime both of Jess's books are available to buy on-line and in our store.