Sheherazade Goldsmith
| Sheherazade Goldsmith | |
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| Born | Shehrazade Bentley 14 March 1974 Denmark Hill, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Subject | Organic food and gardening; environmentalism; jewellery |
| Spouse | Zac Goldsmith (m. 1999; div. 2010) |
| Partner | Alfonso Cuarón |
| Children | 3 (by Zac Goldsmith) |
| Website | |
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Sheherazade Goldsmith (born Sheherazade Bentley; 14 March 1974) is a British environmentalist, jeweller and columnist.
During the 1990s, Goldsmith worked in the fashion industry and, after 2000, engaged in environmental activism undertaking a variety of green initiatives starting with an organic food business that she ran in London until 2002. In 2007, she edited a guide to eco-friendly living, A Slice of Organic Life: Get Closer to the Soil Without Going the Whole Hog, which she followed a year later by publishing a how-to guide for celebrating Christmas in an environmentally friendly way, called A Greener Christmas.
In June 2013, she launched a "concept jewellery" label Loquet London with her friend and model Laura Bailey.
Goldsmith frequently contributed as a columnist to various national newspapers and other UK publications; she has three children by her former husband, Zac Goldsmith, former Conservative MP for Richmond Park, whom she divorced in 2010.
Goldsmith was born in London to John Bentley, a financier and entrepreneur, and Viviane Ventura, a Colombian actress. She was educated at the French Lycée in London.
Goldsmith was known as Sheherazade Bentley prior to marriage, her nom de plume in newspaper columns such as The Sunday Times. Since her divorce, she has continued as a writer and spokeswoman for various environmental causes.
In 2000, while pregnant with her first child, she and her friend Serena Cook opened Deli'Organic, an organic delicatessen in Battersea's so-called "Nappy Valley". The café also soon became one of the first of its kind to set up what W Magazine called a "thriving business delivering fresh, organic baby food" to interested mothers. Goldsmith cooked children's food from the shop's kitchen and served customers for nearly two years, her deli's best-seller being the full English breakfast: restaurant critic A. A. Gill said in a review, "The Deli'Organic is, despite everything, quite fun in a homespun, uncomfortable... way." Though the place was always full, according to Goldsmith's business partner, "it is almost impossible to survive in London if you stick to being 100 per cent organic... [as] the profit margins on organic food is too small." After the birth of her second child in 2002, Goldsmith closed down the enterprise.
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