Amber Guinness

Amber Guinness is a home cook and cookery writer. She was born in London and grew up in Tuscany. She learned to cook at her mother’s side in the kitchen at Arniano, the farmhouse restored by her parents Jasper and Camilla and were they lived full time until 2003. She went to the University of Edinburgh where she studied History & Italian literature, always working in her spare time as a cook both in London and Italy. In 2014 she founded The Arniano Painting School, a residential painting holiday designed to breathe life back into Arniano after her father’s death. These luxury artist’s retreats are centred around creativity and food, and have been featured in The New York Times, House & Garden, Tatler, The Daily Telegraph, Italy Segreta, and various other international magazines. She now lives in Florence. Part-memoir, part-cookbook, and filled with an array of appealing dishes which are rich yet achievable, 'A House Party in Tuscany: Recipes, stories and art from Arniano', is a distillation of everything Amber has learnt about cooking, hosting and painting while growing up in a Tuscan farmhouse, and is her first book. Follow her on Instagram : @amberguinness