The Cooking Canon

The Cooking Canon is a celebrity chef who first came to prominence in the 1970s in a comedy and culinary double act with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

He still appears on television and radio, contributes to a range of magazines and tours the country with his road show.
Born John Eley in 1949, he is an English Anglican priest who was a lighting engineer before studying for the priesthood at Salisbury & Wells Theological College. His first post was as a Curate at Sherborne Abbey, after which he became a Minor Canon at Carlisle Cathedral. It was during this time that he began to appear as a chef on the BBC’s Pebble Mill at One. This led to the publication of three cookery books: The Cooking Canon, The Cooking Canon Entertains and Simply Divine. His ecclesiastical career then took him to All Saints, Bromsgrove and after that Kedington Benefice - Great Bradley.