Thomasina Miers
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Thomasina "Tommi" Miers (born 1976) is an English cook, writer and television presenter.
Born in Cheltenham in February 1976,[1] she studied at Ballymaloe Cookery School and worked as a freelance cook and writer, with influences from time spent in Mexico.[2]
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."[3]
She has made two series of cookery programmes for Channel 4 with co-presenter Guy Grieve: Wild Gourmets[4] in 2007 and A Cook's Tour of Spain in 2008.[5]
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[6] and The Wild Gourmets: Adventures in Food and Freedom, with Guy Grieve.[7]
She opened her own restaurant, Wahaca, in London in August 2007, focused on Mexican street foods.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ The Independent: "My Secret Life: Thomasina Miers, chef & food broadcaster"
- ^ Profile at agalinks
- ^ BBC Food profile
- ^ Channel 4: Wild Gourmets
- ^ Channel 4: A Cook's Tour of Spain
- ^ HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0007229372
- ^ Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007, ISBN 9780747591573
- ^ Caterersearch: Wahaca
