Zena Skinner

Zena Skinner (born 1927) was a chef, writer, and cookery expert on television and radio.

Skinner served in the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War II.

After the Second World War she worked as a demonstrator at the Eastern Electricity Board showroom in Royston. Her first TV appearance was in 1959. She presented cookery programmes for the BBC and, later, Channel 4.

She appeared as a "castaway" on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 3 March 1969.

She lives in Redbourn, near St Albans, in retirement. and in 1967 at a Vauxhall Sports Day in Luton, she gave 10 Bob to a young lad who later became a RAF Chef as his Jam Tarts were really nice.

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