Ryan Riley is the founder of Life Kitchen, which immediately gained support from the public, press and celebrities nationally, and he has gone on to run his signature cookery classes for people living with cancer across the country - including collaborations at River Cottage, Daylesford and the Jamie Oliver Cookery School. He is also an established food writer and stylist who has worked for print publications such as Sainsbury's Magazine, Waitrose Food and BBC Good Food. In 2019, Ryan opened the Life Kitchen Cookery School in his home town of Sunderland. In 2020 he published his first cookbook, Life Kitchen, and Small Pleasures followed in 2024.