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From legal eagle to Challah Mummy

Why would a Cambridge graduate and high-flying tax lawyer give it all up to braid challah?

April 12, 2018 13:47
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Victoria Prever,

Victoria Prever

3 min read

Allegra Benitah, daughter of radio and television personality, Vanessa Feltz, did just that.

Following in her mother’s footsteps, Benitah, 32, attended Haberdasher’s Askes School for Girls and then Cambridge University, but opted for a legal career rather than follow her mother into journalism. She qualified at law firm Clifford Chance, and was fully focused on her career, when she met her French husband Dan Benitah at a Purim party in Rome in 2012. Luckily, Allegra is fluent in French. Their son, Zeke, was born in 2014.

“After becoming a mother, I didn’t think I could be the lawyer I needed to be as well as the mother I wanted to be to my son. I couldn’t reconcile the two so decided to take a career pause” explains Benitah, who is now also mother to two year old Neroli.

Used to working long hours, with little or no time spent in the kitchen before becoming a mother, the 32-year-old would never have imagined ending up elbow deep in dough. But life changed after she attended a challah making workshop at her son’s Hendon school.

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