Peta Leith is a professional pastry chef, food writer and menu consultant who trained at the French Culinary Institute in New York. following an apprenticeship with Claire Ptak at Violet Cakes, she spent seven years as a pastry chef at the Ivy. She lives in Bedfordshire with her husband and two children.

Her first cookery book, entitled “The Vegetarian Kitchen” is a collaboration with her aunt, Prue Leith was published in February 2020.