Dame Mary Berry is one of the UK's best loved cookery writers and television personalities. She was awarded a Damehood in the 2020 birthday honours list for services to broadcasting, the culinary arts and charity work.

Mary is known worldwide for her work as a judge on Best Home Cook and The Great British Bake Off, along with its spin off series. She also presented Love Productions' The Great American Baking Show for NBC.

Mary trained at The Cordon Bleu in Paris and Bath School of Home Economics, and in the 1960s she became the cookery editor of Housewife magazine, and later, Ideal Home magazine. She first appeared on television in the 1970’s and has since written over eighty cookery books with sales of over six million copies.