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CHEF
FOOD WRITER
AUTHOR

Claire THOMSON

WELCOME

I love cooking, likewise writing. Lucky then that the route to combining these two was time spent in restaurant kitchens as a chef in my 20s. From the first restaurant I worked in I knew there was something enthralling about working in the food industry. The people and the passion, the obsession to detail, and the fun, goodness, there was an awful lot of fun. Late nights, early mornings, I thrived and met some wonderful people along the way.

Fast track a little, I am a mum to three daughters and my day to day is different now. I used to get asked all the time “what do you feed your kids?” to which, bemused but flattered, I’d reply with whatever it was I had cooked that day. Social media stepped in at the right time for me and @5oclockapron was born. You could call me one of the originals on instagram. I have written 11 cookery books and continue to post daily, a digital diary of family food, join me.

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Jul 2, 2025

Claire Thomson

Episode 3: Ruby Rare Sex Educator

Jul 2, 2025

Claire Thomson

For this episode of 5 O Clock Apron Podcast, Claire travels to Margate to cook with Ruby Rare. Ruby is a sex educator, that is to say, a force of nature with a mission to encourage and include everyone in her task to make the world a fairer and more accepting place when it comes to the enormous and thorny topics of sex, relationships and body positivity.