Janine Ratcliffe in a short sleeved long dress sitting on a chair beneath palm trees on a balcony

Janine Ratcliffe

Janine Ratcliffe is olive magazine’s editor and has worked on the magazine since its launch. She has written thousands of the magazine’s most popular recipes and continues to share her easy entertaining recipes in print and through her social videos. After gaining a degree in Fine Art and an MA in Film Studies Janine went on to work at the Guardian, BBC and as a freelance food writer and home ec working on books, magazines, advertising and TV. When she’s not finding new talent, developing recipes or feeding friends you can find her sea swimming and grazing in St Ives or in one of her favourite North London pubs with her Boston Terrier, Marlon.

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