Tom Parker Bowles
Tom Parker Bowles is a food writer with columns in The Mail on Sunday and Tatler. He is the author of E is For Eating-An Alphabet of Greed, The Year of Eating Dangerously, Let’s Eat: Recipes from my Kitchen Notebook, and Full English: the story of how British food lost its way.
Tom also co-presents Market Kitchen on UKTV Food and is a contributor to Gordon Ramsay’s F Word. His most recent book is Fortnum & Mason: The Cook Book.
Eating Dangerously: Adventures with Killer Fish, Wriggling Lunch, and Ant Egg Soup Tom Parker Bowles discusses his year of eating dangerously, which he turned into a book—and adds personal anecdotes not told before, plus a new list of exotic foods to try! This intelligent exploration of our ideas about food is a lively whirlwind through a variety of culinary traditions and cultural oddities.
Praise for The Year of Eating Dangerously
“Tom Parker Bowles is nothing if not a charmer. From the first page...this reader was hooked.”
- — The Washington Times
“A mix of self-deprecating humor and lightly worn erudition.”
- — Wall Street Journal
“Tom Parker Bowles writes with a testosterone-inked pen.”
- — Slate
“A veritable culinary Odysseus...[Bowles] wins over his audience as a writer, describing dishes and sensations with the zeal of the recently famished, and his own hedonistic acts in delightful passages of unabashed bravado and self-deprecating humor.”
- — Kirkus Reviews
