SUZIE LEE

Northern Irish Suzie is the winner of BBC's Best Home Cook 2020! She also happens to be an accountant!

Since winning the show, Suzie has gone on to present four series of Suzie Lee Home Cook Hero and her latest show, Suzie Lee's Great Food Made Simple aired in May 2025. All of Suzie's series air on BBC NI and BBC IPlayer. Suzie is also one of the judges on RTE's Takeaway Titans and appears regularly on This Morning as well as being one of the reporters for BBC's Food Fest.

Suzie has also worked with a number of brands including WRAP - Love Food Hate Waste, SuperValu, Tilda, SafeFood and Netmums for PR campaigns and demonstrations.

Suzie's latest book, Simply Chinese Feasts was published in January 2024 following on from the success of her first Simply Chinese, which has been translated into French, Dutch and Spanish. Her third book Simply Speedy Chinese which will be published in January 2026.

She is a mother-of-two and juggles looking after her young children, also running her accountancy business from home and exercising in her spare time.

Suzie does everything at 100 miles an hour and packs as much as possible into every day, and was nicknamed the "Tasmanian Devil" by her friends as a result.

She's been cooking since she was a child when she used to help out in her family’s Chinese takeaway. and now Suzie is at her happiest when cooking up big feasts for her extended family. Her cooking style is hearty family food served in very generous portions