Tom Parker Bowles

Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles(born 18 December 1974)is a Britishfood writerandfood critic. Parker Bowles is the author of nine cookbooks and, in 2010, won theGuild of Food Writers 2010award for his writings onBritish food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas forGQ,Esquire,andThe Mail on Sunday.
Parker Bowles is the son ofQueen CamillaandAndrew Parker Bowles. His stepfather and godfatherisKing Charles III.
Tom Parker Bowles was born on 18 December 1974 in London. He grew up in Wiltshire atBolehyde ManorinAllington, near Chippenham, and later atMiddlewick House, nearCorsham.He and his sister Laura were raised asRoman Catholics.Both their father and their paternal grandmother,Dame Ann Parker Bowles, were Catholic. Like his father, he isin distant remainderto theEarldom of Macclesfield.
Parker Bowles was educated atSummer Fields SchoolinOxford.In the 1980s, he and his sister attendedHeywood Preparatory Schoolin Corsham.He later attendedEton CollegeandWorcester College, Oxford. Parker Bowles states that immediately after leaving school, he fell in love with food writing, and cites his mother's cooking skills and recipes as his inspiration.
From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a juniorpublicistfor Dennis Davidson Associates, a public relations firm. In 1999 there were newspaper reports that he tookcocaineat theCannes Film Festival.In 2001, he becameTatler's food columnist.
Since 2002 he has been a food writer, critic and broadcaster. He is a restaurant critic of TheMail on Sundayand food editor ofEsquire.He is also a contributing editor toCondé Nast Traveller(UK and US), andDepartures(US), as well as a regular contributor toCountry Life,Harpers BazaarandTown and Country.He was a contributor toGordon Ramsay's food magazine television showThe F Word.
From 2007 to 2010 he co-presentedMarket KitchenonGood Food Channel, alongsideMatthew FortandMatt Tebbutt, and presentedLBC Radio'sFood and Drink Programmefor a year.He was a judge on theITV FoodseriesFood Glorious FoodandChannel 9Australian cooking seriesThe Hot Plate.In 2017, he was judge, alongsideMatt Moranand Anna Polyviou on Series 1 ofFamily Food Fight(Channel 9 Australia) and filmed series two ofFamily Food Fight, which was broadcast in late 2018. He is also one of the regular critics onMasterChef(BBC 1). In 2014, Parker Bowles was named as one of the Top 10 most followed UK restaurant critics onTwitter.
Parker Bowles's first book, published in 2004, wasE Is For Eating – An Alphabet of Greed.His next,The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes, was published byEburyin 2007.AbeBooksnamed the book as one of The 50 Best Food Memoirs.His third,Full English: A Journey Through the British and Their Foodwas published in 2009and won theGuild of Food Writers 2010award for best work onBritish food.His next book,Let's Eat: Recipes From My Kitchen Notebook, is a compendium of his favourite recipes from his childhood, collected from around the world, and written with the amateur cook in mind. The book was published bySt. Martin's Pressand was released in 2012.In October 2014, he launched his fifth book titledLet's Eat Meat: Recipes for Prime Cuts, Cheap Bits and Glorious Scraps of Meat,which was published byPavilion.His seventh book,Fortnum and Mason – Christmas and Other Winter Feasts(4th Estate) was released in October 2018.Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles IIIwas released in October 2024.
In November 2011, Parker Bowles, along with food writer Matthew Fort and farmer Rupert Ponsonby, launched apork scratchingssnack named Mr. Trotter's Great British Pork Crackling.Following good reviews and successful sales of the snack,they launched a beer brand in 2013 named Mr Trotter's Chestnut Ale, which was produced in partnership with TheLancaster Brewing Companyand is considered to be the firstchestnutbeer made in the UK.Mr. Trotter's has since begun expanding, creating different types of products.
On 10 September 2005, after five years of dating, Parker Bowles married Sara Buys, an associate editor ofHarpers & Queenmagazine and senior editor of BritishTown & Countrymagazine.The wedding took place at St. Nicholas'AnglicanChurch inRotherfield Greys,Oxfordshire.His cousinBen Elliotwas his best man.The couple had daughter Lola in 2007 and son Frederick in 2010.Parker Bowles and Buys separated in 2018 and their divorce was finalised in 2022.
In 2019, Parker Bowles started dating former journalist Alice Procope (néeHorton), the granddaughter of the2nd Viscount Inglebyand estranged wife of Robert Procope, grandson ofSir Robert Wigram, 8th Baronet.On 17 March 2021, Procope died in her home, seven months after being diagnosed with cancer.
On 6 May 2023, his son Freddy Parker Bowles was one of thePages of Honourto Queen Camilla ather coronation.