About

With over 20 years' experience of making and demonstrating award-winning preserves, Vivien Lloyd is recognised as a leading authority on domestic preservation.

With a number of prizes and accolades behind her, including numerous first prizes for her preserves at the Royal Welsh Show, Vivien's passion for preserving has seen her featured in the Sunday Telegraph, on ITV Central's 'Heart of the Country' programme and on BBC Radio 4 'Food Programme'.

Passionate about ensuring the age-old traditional recipes are not passed over in favour of more modern (and often incorrect) interpretations, Vivien is now keen to share her expertise and knowledge and to revive what she feels is a declining and misunderstood art.

Her chutneys are made using locally sourced fruit and vegetables. Made in small batches, these traditional chutneys, not to be confused with modern, short cooking and short keeping products, are now available in a number of retail outlets.

'Marvellous Marmalade' is one of a new series of Masterclasses DVDs Vivien is producing in which she shares the traditional recipe she used for making the winning Seville Orange Marmalade at the World's Original Marmalade Festival 2008.

For those who prefer to see at first hand how to make high quality preserves at home, Vivien also runs a number of masterclasses for cookery schools and food events about Marmalade, Jam and Chutney.