Thomasina Miers: Co founder of Wahaca, Chef and Writer

Desert Island Dishes

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4.8 • 780 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Thomasina Miers

In 2005 Thomasina was the first winner of the revamped masterchef. She is now a Chef and food writer. She is also the owner of Wahaca, the seriously successful chain of Mexican restaurants.

She has written 7 books to date, has a regular column in The Guardian, has opened another restaurant called DF MEXICO.

In total she employs around 1500 people, she has three young children and is basically super -woman!

Desert Island Dish Dauphinoise potatoes with steak, the café de paris butter from the restaurant 6 portland road and a bitter leaf with vinaigrette

Pudding: loads of cheese and biscuits and chocolate

Luxury item: olive oil

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Margie and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast.
0:10.9	This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island dishes.
0:17.2	These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood,
0:21.9	the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat
0:27.0	before being cast off to the Desert Island.
0:30.2	Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast, as it really does help to give the show a little boost,
0:36.9	and for that I am very grateful.
0:39.2	This week has been a little crazy if you live in the UK. You will know that the beast from the
0:45.2	east has struck with a vengeance and chaos has ensued everywhere. I myself was loving it until my
0:52.7	boiler broke, and now I'm wearing about 101 jumpers,
0:57.4	and I can't feel my fingers as I type.
0:59.6	So apologies if you can hear my teeth chattering.
1:03.0	Hopefully this week's episode will warm you up wherever you are.
1:06.8	Keep warm, everyone.
1:10.7	So my guest today is Tomasina Myers.
1:13.6	In 2005, Tomasina was the first winner of the revamped Master Chef.
1:18.4	She is now a chef and a food writer.
1:20.9	She's the owner of Oaxaca, the seriously successful chain of Mexican restaurants.
1:25.5	She's written seven books to date, has a regular
1:27.9	column in The Guardian, has opened another chain of restaurants called DF Mexico. In total,
1:33.6	she employs around 1,500 people. She has three young children and is basically superwoman. Welcome
1:40.6	Tomasina. Definitely not superwoman. You are such a busy person with so many things going on.
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