- Thomasina Miers
Thomasina "Tommi" Miers (born 1976) is an English cook, writer and television presenter.
Born in Cheltenham in February 1976, [ [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/my-secret-life-thomasina-miers-chef--food-broadcaster-744903.html "The Independent": "My Secret Life: Thomasina Miers, chef & food broadcaster"] ] she studied at Ballymaloe Cookery School and worked as a freelance cook and writer, with influences from time spent in Mexico. [ [http://www.agalinks.com/465_824.htm Profile at agalinks] ]
In 2005 she won the BBC TV cookery competition "
Masterchef ", "impressing judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace with her bold and, at times, eccentric cooking style." [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/masterchef/thomasina_index.shtml BBC Food profile] ]She has made two series of cookery programmes for
Channel 4 with co-presenterGuy Grieve : "Wild Gourmets" [ [http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/wild-gourmets/ Channel 4: Wild Gourmets] ] in 2007 and "A Cook's Tour of Spain" in 2008. [ [http://www.channel4.com/food/on-tv/a-cooks-tour-of-spain/ Channel 4: A Cook's Tour of Spain] ]She is co-editor with Annabel Buckingham of the cookbook "Soup Kitchen" (with an introduction by
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ). She is the author of "Cook: Smart Seasonal Recipes for Hungry People" [HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0007229372 ] and "The Wild Gourmets: Adventures in Food and Freedom", withGuy Grieve . [Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007, ISBN 9780747591573]She opened her own restaurant, Wahaca, in London in August 2007, focused on Mexican street foods. [ [http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2007/08/16/315495/wahaca-london.html Caterersearch: Wahaca] ]
References
External links
* [http://www.wahaca.co.uk/ Wahaca]
* [http://www.greeneheaton.co.uk/pages/authors/author.asp?AuthorID=73 Profile at Greene & Heaton]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article2452875.ece "The Times": "Just wild about food"]
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