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Tom Jaine (born 4 June 1943) is a former restaurateur, a food writer and until recently the publisher of Prospect Books.
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Tom Jaine (born 4 June 1943) is a former restaurateur, a food writer and until recently the publisher of Prospect Books.
He was educated at Kingswood School
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(1955–1959) and at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied Modern history (1961–1964). He worked as an archivist from 1964 to 1973 and a restaurateur from 1974 to 1984. From 1984 to 1988, he organised the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery
The Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery is an annual weekend conference at which academics, food writers, cooks, and others with an interest in food and culture meet to discuss current issues in food studies and food history.
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, and from 1989 to 1994 he waso editor of the annual Good Food Guide
''The Good Food Guide'' has been reviewing the best restaurants, pubs and cafés in Great Britain since 1951.
In October 2021, Adam Hyman purchased ''The Good Food Guide'' for an undisclosed sum from Waitrose & Partners. The ''Guide'' is being r ...
. From 1993 to 2016 he was the proprietor of Prospect Books, a prize-winning publishing company specialising in food and food history.
He is the author of four books and has written for ''The Times
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'', ''The Guardian
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'', ''The Sunday Times
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'', ''The Sunday Telegraph
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It is the sister paper of ''The Daily Telegraph
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'', ''The Evening Standard
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In October 2009, after bei ...
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...BBC TV
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, and ITV, and a series of programmes about food and cookery in the Balkans
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for BBC Radio 4
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.
He was Glenfiddich Restaurant Writer of the year in 1994, Glenfiddich Food Broadcaster of the year in 2000, and that same year he was also the winner of the top award: Glenfiddich Trophy for the best Wine and Food Writer of the year.
Bibliography
As author
* ''Cooking in the Country'' by Tom Jaine and James Ravilious (Prospect Books 1986) * ''Cosmic Cuisine'' by Tom Jaine and Nich Campion (Harper Collins 1988) * Contributed to ''Traditional Country House Cooking'' edited by C. Anne Wilson (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1993) * ''Building a Wood-fired Oven'' (Prospect Books 1996) * ''Making Bread at Home'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illus. 1998)As editor
Books
* co-editor of the ''Oxford Companion to Food
''The Oxford Companion to Food'' is an encyclopedia about food. It was edited by Alan Davidson and published by Oxford University Press in 1999. It was also issued in softcover under the name ''The Penguin Companion to Food''. The second and th ...
'', 2nd and 3rd editions
Annual guides
* Westcountry Cooking's ''Guide to Good Food in the West Country'', (1999-2000) * ''The Good Food Guide'' from 1989 to 1994.Periodicals
* ''World Gastronomy'', Journal of The International Wine and Food Society (London) * ''Food and Wine'', Journal of The International Wine and Food Society (London) * ''Petits Propos Culinaires
''Petits Propos Culinaires'' (PPC) is a journal covering the history of food and cookery.
History and content
Founded by Jane and Alan Davidson in 1979 and first published in 1980, ''Petits Propos Culinaires'' is edited by Tom Jaine and publishe ...
'', since 2000.
As translator
* ''The French Country Housewife: the first volume of ''Maison rustique des dames'' (1859) by Cora Millet-Robinet'', translated with introduction by Tom Jaine. London: Prospect Books, 2017.References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jaine, Tom 1943 births Living people British publishers (people) British editors Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford People educated at Kingswood School, Bath British food writers