Rachel Khoo
| Rachel Khoo | |
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28 August 1980 Croydon, South London, England |
| Residence | London, United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design |
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| Years active | 2010–present |
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| Website | www |
Rachel Khoo (born 28 August 1980) is a British cook, writer and broadcaster, with her own BBC cooking series. She is also founder and editor-in-chief of online lifestyle magazine, Khoollect.
Khoo was born in Croydon, South London. She has a younger brother named Michael. She attended primary school in Bromley. Her paternal family were Chinese immigrants to Malaysia and were part of the Khoo Kongsi clanhouse located in George Town, Penang. Her father is Malaysian Chinese and emigrated from Ipoh to the UK at aged 16 in 1968, one year before the Malaysian riots. He later met and married her mother, an Austrian native. At 12, her father's job in IT forced the family to move to Bavaria, where they lived in the countryside outside Munich for four years. They returned to the UK when Rachel was 16. She attended Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and earned a degree in art and design.
After graduating from university, Khoo initially worked in public relations for the luxury fashion retailer, Thomas Pink for two years. Looking for "adventure" in her life and with no knowledge of French, she quit her job at Thomas Pink and undertook a three-month patisserie course at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris in 2006. While living in Paris, she worked part-time as an au pair and sold perfume at the upscale department store, Printemps. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu, she worked at the Parisian cookbook store and café, La Cocotte, where she ran baking workshops and served as the store's pastry chef .
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