Daily Archives: July 20, 2009

From Supermodel to Baker


Lorraine Pascale was one of the biggest supermodels in the 1990’s, she was the face of campaigns for Versace, Donna Karren amongst others and was the first British Black model to grace the cover of American Elle magazine. Taking a great change of direction Lorraine followed her passion and enrolled on Leith’s Diploma of Food and Wine and then followed this with a degree in International Culinary Arts in Pastry (as an aside, this is a dream of mine, the culinary degree not the cover of Elle!). Today she opened her own place in Covent Garden called Ellas Bakehouse (named after her daughter). Continue reading