I’m features writer Tom Vaughan. I’ve always enjoyed food and I’ve always enjoyed writing about it. Aged eight I even wrote a 4000 word food-based book, without blinking as I remember, about a farmer. It was called Memoirs of Cabbage. It was rubbish. Literally, as my father later composted it.
I joined Caterer as features writer in September 2006 and help deal with the Menuwatch section of the magazine as well as compiling the real news section of the magazine: fans-favourite Food File. While my main area of focus is restaurants I have also leant my hand to a wide smattering of topics from school food to tourism.
Having spent much of my formative years in kitchens, including pubs, restaurants and those bastions of fine-dining, residential homes, I have a great affinity for chefs and their endeavours. Even if those endeavours consist of cooking a fry-up then blending it, as was the case at the residential home I was blessed enough to slave in aged 16.
My spare time I seem to divide between resuscitating the dying vegetation on my roof terrace and throwing out food bought with the best intention of weaving into some sophisticated dish. Only this morning I had the luxury of chucking out 5 ducks eggs and a bag of fennel.
I shall be blogging about restaurants, chefs, food and, quite frankly, anything that comes into my radar.
