08/03/2021
more than ever .
Meet inspiring us through her style and adventures. Link in the bio 📸
‘HoG Your Style’ is an ongoing series devoted to celebrating the accomplished women in our communities, cities and countries -- the brilliant forces of creativity and passion that often go unseen and unheard, all while running the world. Meet Laura Bridge to discover her journey. Having become a burnt-out, over-indulgent celebrity chef in Moscow, Laura was determined to find a better work/life balance. After an auspicious and revelatory introduction to a Peruvian shaman in Moscow, Laura quit her life there and embarked on a spiritual quest that took her from Ayahuasca to Ayurveda and ultimately the tools for a happier life. We spent a day in her eclectic third-generation family home in Barnes, a district in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames that possesses a quintessential old-world English charm. Like Laura says, it is one big cul-de-sac: it is where she grew up, went to school and found her first job at the historic Olympic Studios cooking for Duran Duran. From there she took on the world, traveling with the McLaren Formula 1 team as a team chef and cooking for Prince on tour. Back in England, she cooked for HRH Prince Charles and Camilla at Highgrove until she decided to return to her roots where she found the love of her life. Greeted by a divine, spicy and aromatic cup of masala chai we began our tête-à-tête.