Blue Earth Summit

Cook, writer and winner of MasterChef, Thomasina Miers went to live in Mexico in 2004 to research the food she fell in love with a decade earlier. In 2007, she co-founded Wahaca, a group of restaurants that has been winning awards for its food and sustainability credentials for 18 years. Half of its mouth-watering menu is vegetarian; its beef comes from regenerative farms; the group went carbon neutral in 2016. Tommi’s passion lies in good food and its power to transform society. She helped set up Chefs in Schools in 2017, for which she is a trustee, a charity whose premise is to put trained chefs into school kitchens to make affordable, but delicious food to change how children eat and feel about food. She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for her services to the food industry. Tommi has a regular column in the Guardian’s Feast magazine and has written 8 cookbooks. In 2024 she went back to live in Mexico for 6 months with her husband and 3 children to introduce her family to the country she so loves. She has just finished writing down the recipes from that trip in her new book Mexican Table. She can be found cooking feasts and supper clubs in the UK and abroad and shops at her local farmers’ market whenever possible.