Tristram Stuart (born: London 1977) is an English author and historian.
Stuart read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating in 1999 and winning the Betha Wolferstan Rylands prize and the Graham Storey prize; his directors of studies were Peter Holland and John Lennard. He is the author of The Bloodless Revolution: Radical Vegetarians and the Discovery of India (Harper Collins Ltd, 2006) published in the United States as The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism From 1600 to Modern Times (W.W. Norton, 2007) and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (Penguin, 2009; W.W. Norton, 2009) which won the IACP Cookbook Award for Literary Food Writing and has been translated into several languages.[1] He is a regular contributor to newspapers, radio and television programs in the UK, US and Europe on the subject of food, the environment and freeganism.
He lives in England and in December 2009 organized "Feeding the 5000" in London's Trafalgar Square in which 5,000 people were served free curry, smoothies and fresh groceries from cast off vegetables and other food that otherwise would have been wasted to raise awareness for reducing food waste.[2] The event has inspired replica events across the UK and Europe and on November 18th 2011 'Feeding the 5000' returns to London's Trafalgar Square. In 2011 Tristram Stuart won the international environmental Sophie Prize and the Observer Food Monthly Outstanding Contribution Award.