Introduction

I was born in Manchester and grew up in Australia, before moving to London when I was 22. I found my community and started my family in North London. I opened Margot for the same reason I started baking bread at home, because there was nowhere in easy travelling distance for me to buy good bread for my family. I found a dilapidated ex-post office around the corner from my home and set about convincing the landlord to trust me with its reinvention and persuading lenders to provide money. I learned one step at a time about installing three-phase electricity and how to lay out a bakery and a shop and manage suppliers, employment law, VAT and baking in large volumes amongst a hundred other lessons.