Sarah Rainey

Sarah Rainey is a food writer, cookbook author and newspaper journalist. She has been writing features for publications including The Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Mail for the past 16 years and now works as a freelance writer, contributing to national newspapers and magazines on a weekly basis.

She edited How to Jug A Hare (The Telegraph Book of the Kitchen) in 2015 and her first solo cookbook, Three Ingredient Baking, was published by Michael Joseph in 2018. Her second, Six Minute Showstoppers, came out in 2020 and her third, How to Cheat at Baking (Michael O'Mara Books) is due to be published in 2026.

Originally from Northern Ireland, Sarah lives in the Suffolk countryside with her husband and two young sons. When not writing, baking or recipe-testing, she enjoys reading, running and singing in her local choir.