Niamh Shields

With thousands of followers every day for her blog, Eat Like A Girl, Irish ex-pat Niamh is already a powerful voice among those who have a passion for eating well.

She loves to travel, eat and cook, and is a role model for her generation of young adults whose mothers did not cook. (Her mother still doesn't, but she loves to eat!)

Self-taught, apart from the help of school home economics, Niamh is on a mission to bring her gastronomic passions from near and far, canny kitchen tricks and sparkling food to all those who love to eat.

Niamh won the Best Food blog award at the Observer Food Monthly Awards in October 2011.