1. Thomasina Miers is the co-founder of the Wahaca chain of Mexican street food restaurants.
15 Facts About Thomasina Miers
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Thomasina Jean Miers was born in February 1976 in Cheltenham, the daughter of Probyn Miers, a joiner and furniture maker, formerly a management consultant and Niki Miers, of Guiting Power, Cheltenham.
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Thomasina Miers grew up in "a big rambling house" at Acton, West London.
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The Miers family, landed gentry originally of Aldingham, Cumbria, owned the Ynyspenllwch estate in Glamorganshire until the time of her grandfather, Cmdr Richard Eustace Probyn Miers, RN.
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Thomasina Miers has a twin brother, Dighton, and a sister, Talulah.
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Thomasina Miers was schooled at St Paul's Girls' School, studied modern languages at the University of Edinburgh and studied at Ballymaloe Cookery School.
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Thomasina Miers worked as a freelance cook and writer, with influences from time spent in Mexico.
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In 2005, Thomasina Miers won the BBC TV cookery competition MasterChef, "impressing judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace with her bold and, at times, eccentric cooking style".
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Thomasina Miers has made two series of cookery programmes for Channel 4 with co-presenter Guy Grieve: Wild Gourmets in 2007 and A Cook's Tour of Spain in 2008.
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Thomasina Miers is co-editor with Annabel Buckingham of the cookbook Soup Kitchen.
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Thomasina Miers has written Cook: Smart Seasonal Recipes for Hungry People, The Wild Gourmets: Adventures in Food and Freedom, with Guy Grieve, and Mexican Food Made Simple.
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Thomasina Miers co-founded Wahaca, which became a chain of Mexican "street food" restaurants, alongside Mark Selby in 2006.
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Thomasina Miers opened its first restaurant in London's Covent Garden in August 2007 and in October 2008 a second opened at Westfield London.
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Thomasina Miers is married to Mark Williams, a fund manager at Liontrust Asset Management and they have three daughters.
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In January 2019, Thomasina Miers was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the food industry; she received the honour from the Duke of Cambridge later in the year at an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace.