Thomasina Miers

Thomasina Miers was winner of BBC MasterChef in 2005. She is a cook and food writer whose work has ranged from running market stalls in Ireland, and cheese-making, to cheffing with Skye Gyngell at Petersham Nurseries, and co-founding the restaurant group Wahaca., She has won numerous awards, including Observer Food Monthly’s Cheap Eats to the SRA’s most sustainable restaurant group three years running.
Her previous books include Soup Kitchen, Cook, Wild Gourmets, Mexican Food Made Simple, Wahaca and Chilli Notes. She has presented various cookery TV programmes and writes a regular column, ‘weekend cook’, in the Guardian magazine. She has three children and lives in London. Her new book Home Cook is published by Guardian Faber in March.