Tom Parker Bowles

About

Tom Parker Bowles is a food writer and critic. He is also the author of The Year of Eating Dangerously and E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed.

Tom studied at Summer Fields prep school in Oxford. He then attended Eton College and Worcester College. He then worked as a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates PR firm.

Food Critic

For many years he has been a food writer with a weekly column in The Mail on Sunday. He moved from being a Contributing Editor at GQ to Food Editor at Esquire.

His first book was E Is For Eating – An Alphabet of Greed. His next, The Year of Eating Dangerously. And his third, Full English; A Journey Through the British and Their Food won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for best work on British food.

His next book, Let’s Eat, is a compendium of his favourite recipes, collected from around the world.

On 10 September 2005, after 5 years of dating, Parker Bowles married Sara Buys, a fashion features editor at Harpers & Queen who wore a dress designed by Sarah Burton, in St. Nicholas’ Anglican Church in Rotherfield Grey, Oxfordshire. The wedding was attended by Andrew and Rosemary Parker Bowles (his father and stepmother), his mother and Charles, Prince of Wales, and Charles’ sons, Prince William and Prince Harry.

He also co-presented Market Kitchen on Good Food Channel from 2007 to 2010 and presented LBC Radio’s Food and Drink Programme for a year.

Product Endorsements & Advertising

He is Editor at Large of Pomp magazine and acts as consultant on a number of food related projects, including Heckfield Place, due to open in 2012.

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