About Susan Brookes
Susan Brookes (née Walton; born 28 November 1943) is an English television chef, broadcaster and writer. During the 1980s and 1990s, she regularly appeared on the ITV daytime magazine show This Morning, cooking recipes for viewers as the programme's resident chef. == Early life and education == Brookes was born in Settle, then part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1943, and grew up in nearby Langcliffe (both areas are now in North Yorkshire) as the middle child of eight siblings, with seven brothers. Her father, John (Jack) Ridgway Walton, originally from Manchester, was an engineering specialist in non-woven fabrics. She attended Langcliffe School and Settle High School, where she was banned from cookery classes because she talked too much. Brookes learned to cook at an early age, but had no formal training. She has a degree in politics, philosophy and English. == Career == Brookes started her career as a teacher, and wrote features for her local newspaper in her spare time. She had her children at a young age, and it was not until she was 35 that Brookes embarked on her television career, before which she had taught English. In 1980, she applied for a job as a researcher, and worked on programmes for Granada Television in Manchester, beginning with Live From Two, followed by The Krypton Factor.
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