Name Thomasina Miers Role Cook | Spouse Mark Williams | |
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Similar People Hugh Fearnley‑Whittingstall, John Torode, Tristram Stuart, Valentine Warner, Angela Hartnett | ||
Education St Paul's Girls' School | ||
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Thomasina Jean "Tommi" Miers (born February 1976) is an English cook, writer and television presenter. She is the founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican street food restaurants.
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- How to wahaca chicken tinga recipe with thomasina miers hellofresh
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- Early life
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Thomasina miers itv saturday cookbook 17 aug 2013 wahaca
Early life
Thomasina Jean "Tommi" Miers was born in February 1976 in Cheltenham, the daughter of Probyn and Niki Miers.
She studied at St Paul's Girls' School and Ballymaloe Cookery School and worked as a freelance cook and writer, with influences from time spent in Mexico.
Career
In 2005 she won the BBC TV cookery competition MasterChef, "impressing judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace with her bold and, at times, eccentric cooking style".
She has made two series of cookery programmes for Channel 4 with co-presenter Guy Grieve: Wild Gourmets in 2007 and A Cook's Tour of Spain in 2008. In 2011, she presented Mexican Food Made Simple for Channel 5.
She is co-editor with Annabel Buckingham of the cookbook Soup Kitchen (with an introduction by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall). She has also written Cook: Smart Seasonal Recipes for Hungry People, The Wild Gourmets: Adventures in Food and Freedom, with Guy Grieve, and Mexican Food Made Simple.
Miers opened the first of her chain of Mexican street food restaurants, Wahaca, in the West End of London in August 2007. In October 2008 a second Wahaca opened at Westfield in London. Since then she has opened two further restaurants in Canary Wharf and Soho and in 2011, Wahaca launched their first mobile street kitchen, selling Mexican street food on the streets of London. As of September 2015, Wahaca had 19 branches.
Personal life
She is married to investment banker Mark Williams and gave birth to a daughter, Tatyana, in 2011 and Ottilie in 2013.