Tim Hayward

Tim Hayward is an award-winning food journalist and broadcaster, and the author of Food DIY (2013), Knife (2016), The Modern Kitchen (2017) and Loaf Story (2020). He is a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4's The Kitchen Cabinet, frequently presents The Food Programme and in December 2018 made and presented The Gut Instinct: A Social Culture, a five-part Radio 4 series.

Tim is both food writer and restaurant reviewer for The Financial Times, and winner of awards including the Fortnum and Mason Restaurant Writer of the Year 2024 and Guild of Food Writers awards for Food Writing 2024. He is co-owner of Fitzbillies Bakery in Cambridge.

“A respectful eater and a beautifully elegant writer.” - Nigella Lawson

"The most serious cookery writer I know. Whatever he says, I will listen. Whatever he writes, I will buy." – Len Deighton

"One of the best food writers alive." - Simon Schama