Tim Hayward is an award-winning food journalist and broadcaster, and the author of Food DIY (2013), Knife (2016), The Modern Kitchen (2017) and Loaf Story (2020). He is a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet, and has written and presented several documentary series on Radio 4 on subjects ranging from modern craftspeople to bacteria. His three-part documentary on fungi won gold at the 2023 New York Festivals Radio Awards, in the Environment & Ecology category.
Tim is both food writer and restaurant reviewer for the Financial Times, and winner of awards including the Fortnum and Mason Food Writer of the Year 2022 and Guild of Food Writers awards for Food Writing and Restaurant Reviews. He is co-owner of Fitzbillies Bakery in Cambridge.
Publications
2011-2014 Fire & Knives - Food Quarterly. (Ed)
2013 Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything
2015 The DIY Cook
2016 Knife: The Cult, Craft and Culture of the Cook's Knife
2017 The Modern Kitchen: Objects That Changed the Way We Cook, Eat and Live
2020 Fitzbillies: Stories and Recipes from a 100 Year Old Cambridge Bakery
2020 Loaf Story: A Love Letter to Bread
2024 Steak - The Whole Story
Awards
2023 New York Festivals Awards. Gold (Radio Documentary - Environment & Ecology) for ‘Fungi: The New Frontier’
2022 Fortnum and Mason Award for ‘Food Writer of the Year’
2022 Guild of Food Writers ‘Food Journalist of the Year’
2019 Guild of Food Writers ‘Restaurant Writer of the Year’
2018 Guild of Food Writers ‘Restaurant Writer of the Year’
2015 Guild of Food Writers ‘Food Journalist of the Year’
2014 Guild of Food Writers ‘Food Journalist of the Year’
2014 Fortnum & Mason Award for ‘Best Food Journalism’
2012 Guild of Food Writers 'Food Journalist of the Year'
2012 Guild of Food Writers 'Best Food Magazine’ for Fire & Knives.
2011 Guild of Food Writers 'Food Broadcast of the Year Award'
2009 Guild of Food Writers ‘New Media Award’