Authors
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A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill is a writer and restaurant critic based in London, and contributes regularly to The Sunday Times and Vanity Fair.
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Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse is one of the most renowned chefs of his generation. Born in the Landes region of western France, he is also a restaurant designer, hotelier and teacher of the culinary arts. His current stable of restaurants includes Plaza Athénée (Paris), Jules Verne (Eiffel Tower, Paris), The Dorchester (London), and he is the only chef to hold 19 Michelin stars throughout his career.
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Albert Watson
Scottish-born Albert Watson has created images for hundreds of successful advertising campaigns such as Gap, Levi’s, Revlon and Chanel, and has directed more than 500 TV commercials and shot dozens of posters for major Hollywood movies. His photographs have been featured at museums and galleries worldwide including the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Photo District News named Watson one of the 20 most influential photographers of all time, and he has won numerous awards for his work.
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Alfred Tong
Alfred Tong is a journalist, trend forecaster and brand consultant. He has written for The Times and the Telegraph, as well as The Face, Timeout, Harpers Bazaar, WGSN and Esquire, where he wrote the ‘Style Sleuth’ column. He lives in London with his cocktail shaker.
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Andrea Mohr
Andrea Mohr was born in a small town in the South of Germany. Today she is a writer, but for many years she was a wanted woman, organising crime, laundering money, and involved in a cocaine cartel. As a young woman she studied at University in Munich and in Berlin. Working as a model and actress, hostess and performing in a cabaret show she lived in Berlin for ten years. She also travelled the world making many contacts and she started dealing in drugs. In 1999 she was arrested.
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Andy Harris
As editor of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie Magazine, Andy Harris is constantly travelling the globe in search of inspirational food and cooking techniques. It was love at first sight when he landed in Marrakesh over 10 years ago and today it remains his favorite destination.
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Anna Bergenström
Anna Bergenström is one of Sweden’s most popular cookbook authors and food journalists. She has been praised for her personal, inspirational and educational recipes.
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Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio is one of the UK’s most loved food personalities. He is author of 13 books on Italian cooking, a seasoned television presenter and founder of Carluccio’s Café. He lives in London. In 1998, Antonio was awarded the Commendatore OMRI by the President of Italy for services to Italian gastronomy, the equivalent of a British knighthood. In 2007 he was awarded an honorary Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen.
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April Carter
April Carter writes a baking blog called Rhubarb and Rose, about her adventures of baking and making things in London.
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Beci Opin
Beci Orpin is an artist and designer, with a degree in textile design, has her own clothing line, Tiny Mammoth, and creates homewares and stationery-based products. Beci leads a domestic existence (with occasional bursts of debauchery) and when not drawing and designing, is likely to be found hanging with her two sons Tyke and Ari, gardening, riding her bike, op-shopping, bird-watching and cooking.