Thomasina Miers

Cook, writer and winner of MasterChef, Thomasina Miers fell upon Mexico in her teens and has been travelling there ever since. In 2004 she went to live in Mexico City to open a cocktail bar and research the food she fell in love with a decade earlier. In 2007, she co-founded Wahaca, a group of restaurants that has been winning awards for its food and sustainability credentials for 18 years. Half of its mouth-watering menu is vegetarian; the group went carbon neutral in 2016.

Tommi’s passion lies in good food and its power to transform both people - mind and body, and nature - the birds and the bees. She helped set up Chefs in Schools in 2017, for which she is a trustee, a charity whose premise is to put trained chefs into school kitchens making affordable, delicious food and changing how children eat and feel about food. She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for her services to the food industry.

Tommi has a column in the Guardian’s Feast magazine and has written 8 cookbooks. In 2024 she went back to live in Mexico for 6 months with her family to introduce them to the country she so loves. She worked in restaurants and festivals and has written a collection of recipes inspired by that trip. She can be found cooking feasts and supper clubs in the UK and abroad and shops at her local farmers’ market whenever possible.