LOCAL PEOPLE
What a pretty pickle! Cheryl Russell of Kingston Preserves started cooking when she was six, and is still just as passionate about food now as she was in those first years of discovery. After an introduction to cake baking, Cheryl’s appetite was whetted, and as an avid reader she started following recipes, gradually learning how to cook staple meals, and taking over the household cooking at an early age. With cooking still very much at the forefront of her interests when she left school, she went on to train as a chef at a catering college. She met her future husband Simon when she was 16 and they married three years later. Simon was in the navy, so Cheryl chose to fit her career around family needs, working part-time at a bank for 12 years and then later moving on to an HR role in the Civil Service for 15 years, as well as training and practicing as a counsellor, therapist and spiritual healer. Simon has always been a keen gardener and enjoyed growing fruit and vegetables. His career took the family to various
locations in the South West, and in Bath, Cheryl found a use for their various fruit trees and prolific vegetable plot, by cooking jams and chutneys. Even after giving numerous jars to family and friends there was often more than they could consume themselves. So Simon constructed a small hutch outside the house, which Cheryl kept topped up with her wares, for passers-by to purchase. The couple had fallen in love with Devon when Simon was appointed to Britannia Naval College in Dartmouth, and always hoped to return; when the opportunity arose ten years ago to buy a former
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