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Welcome to the website for Harriet Mansell.
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Harriet Mansell is a Devon-raised chef whose cooking is rooted in the natural world - in hedgerows, woodlands, moorlands and coastline that surround wherever she finds herself. With over 15 years' experience working with seasonal and foraged ingredients, she is best known as chef-owner of Robin Wylde and Lilac Restaurant & Wine Bar in Lyme Regis. Trained at world-leading restaurants, she has cooked for some of the world's most prominent families and figures, appeared on Great British Menu, and has been nominated for various awards. Her work sits at the intersection of food as flavour, medicine and nourishment - a philosophy that extends into her wild food walks, ongoing plant research, and her forthcoming botanical skincare range, FENN. For summer 2026, Harriet takes her seasonal cooking to the Dordogne, taking over La Closerie de la Beyne - a new landscape, a new larder, and a natural next chapter.
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Harriet is also a trained yoga teacher, a yin breathwork practitioner, a trainee in 'Compassionate Inquiry' which is a psychotherapeutic modality developed and taught by Dr Gabor Mate, a level 2 reiki practitioner, and maintains a focus on holistic self development and working with others in this way, alongside her passion for plants. Harriet has worked on other people's retreats and hopes to one day host her own.
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Harriet also hosts a podcast and makes films about the natural world - called 'if a tree falls', projects that bridge questions about life with wild foods, which you can access via Spotify or Apple Podcasts.
