18 Facts About Tom Parker Bowles

Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles was born on 18 December 1974 and is a British food writer and food critic.

Parker Bowles is the author of nine cookbooks and, in 2010, won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food.

Tom Parker Bowles 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 for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.

Tom Parker Bowles was born on 18 December 1974 in London.

Tom Parker Bowles grew up in Wiltshire at Bolehyde Manor in Allington, near Chippenham, and later at Middlewick House, near Corsham.

Parker Bowles was educated at Summer Fields School in Oxford.

Tom Parker Bowles later attended Eton College and Worcester College, Oxford.

From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates, a public relations firm.

Tom Parker Bowles is a restaurant critic of The Mail on Sunday and food editor of Esquire.

Tom Parker Bowles is a contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveller, and Departures, as well as a regular contributor to Country Life, Harpers Bazaar and Town and Country.

Tom Parker Bowles was a contributor to Gordon Ramsay's food magazine television show The F Word.

Tom Parker Bowles was a judge on the ITV Food series Food Glorious Food and Channel 9 Australian cooking series The Hot Plate.

Tom Parker Bowles is one of the regular critics on MasterChef.

In 2014, Parker Bowles was named as one of the Top 10 most followed UK restaurant critics on Twitter.

Tom Parker Bowles's 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.

Parker Bowles and Buys separated in 2018 and their divorce was finalised in 2022.

In 2019, Parker Bowles started dating former journalist Alice Procope, the granddaughter of the 2nd Viscount Ingleby and estranged wife of Robert Procope, grandson of Sir Robert Wigram, 8th Baronet.

On 6 May 2023, his son Freddy Parker Bowles was one of the Pages of Honour to Queen Camilla at her coronation.