Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmeralda Dickson Wright is an British celebrity chef and one half of the Two Fat Ladies with the late Jennifer Paterson. She is also a trained barrister and is the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar.

Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmeralda Dickson Wright is an British celebrity chef and one half of the Two Fat Ladies with the late Jennifer Paterson. She is also a trained barrister and is the youngest woman ever to be called to the Bar.

Born into a home where caviar was more common than peanut butter, and her father, a famous surgeon, had pigeons sent from Cairo for dinner, Clarissa grew up surrounded by fine food.

Clarissa practiced successfully as a barrister for a number of years before realising that cooking was her true calling. She has cooked on a yacht in the Caribbean, served more than 60 meals a day at her own luncheon club in London, and has had her own catering business, Clarissa's Company.

Well known in London where she ran a bookstore, Notting Hill's Books for Cooks, Clarissa took her talents north of the English border, establishing The Cooks Bookshop in Edinburgh. Described by Henrietta Green, author of The Food Lovers' Guide to Britain (Parkwest, 1994), as "the world's leading authority on cookery books," Clarissa is always ready and willing to give advice.

Clarissa is an inspired writer and columnist for Decanter Magazine and a regular contributor to House & Garden magazine. Larger than life in every sense of the word, she has become an English audience favourite on BBC Radio 4's Curious Cooks. She rode into popular fame in the sidecar of a motorcycle on Two Fat Ladies, which was co-hosted by the late Jennifer Paterson.