Emma and Ian decided to move back to the countryside from London in 2013. Emma grew up in the Dorset countryside and after leaving school was a successful event rider, competing in the Badminton three-day event. Then she moved to London where she worked for a fund management firm in the City for 20 years as a marketing manager. ‘This is where I met my husband Ian; we lived in Wandsworth, London and had a cottage in Dorset for the weekends,’ explains Emma. The pull of home and the countryside got stronger and they both decided to move back to the country full-time. Around this time Emma decided that her passion for cooking could be her next career path and so spent six months at the well-known private chef school in Ashburton, Devon.