Thomasina Miers

Wahaca, Covent Garden, 2008

Wahaca mobile street kitchen, 2012

Thomasina Jean "Tommi" Miers (born February 1976) is an English cook, writer and television presenter. She is the co-founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican street food restaurants.

Early life

Thomasina Jean "Tommi" Miers was born in February 1976^[1] in Cheltenham,^[2] the daughter of Probyn, a joiner and furniture maker,^[3] formerly a management consultant^[4][5] and Niki Miers, of Guiting Power, Cheltenham.^[6][7]

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.^[8]

Career

In 2005, Miers won the BBC TV cookery competition MasterChef, "impressing judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace with her bold and, at times, eccentric cooking style".^[9]

She has made two series of cookery programmes for Channel 4 with co-presenter Guy Grieve: Wild Gourmets^[10] in 2007 and A Cook's Tour of Spain in 2008.^[11] In 2011, she presented Mexican Food Made Simple for Channel 5.^[12]

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,^[13] The Wild Gourmets: Adventures in Food and Freedom, with Guy Grieve,^[14] and Mexican Food Made Simple.^[15]

Miers co-founded Wahaca, which became a chain of Mexican "street food" restaurants, alongside Mark Selby in 2006.^[16] The company opened its first restaurant in London's Covent Garden in August 2007^[17] and in October 2008 a second opened at Westfield London.^[18] In 2011, Wahaca launched their first mobile street kitchen, selling Mexican street food on the streets of London.^[19] As of December 2017, Wahaca had 25 branches.^[20]

Personal life

Miers is married to Mark Williams, a fund manager at Liontrust^[21] and they have three daughters.^[22][23]

References

External links

• Official website
• Miers' cookery articles in The Guardian