Trained at Leith’s and Ottolenghi, Olia Hercules is a chef, food writer and author of Mamushka: Recipes From Ukraine & Beyond, the debut book prize winner at this year’s Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards.
Tom Hunt is an acclaimed eco-chef, and author of The Natural Cook. He founded the Forgotten Feast, a campaign working on projects throughout the UK, to revive our cooking heritage and help reduce food waste and Poco an award winning restaurant in Bristol and now in London. He is also a regular contributor to London Food Link’s Jellied Eel magazine.
They join the UFA judges returning from last year:
Rowley Leigh’s culinary CV includes Le Gavroche, before launching his own Kensington Place with Nick Smallwood in 1987, followed twenty years later Le Cafe Anglais. Throughout this time and still today he has been a prize-winning national newspaper food journalist and cookbook author.
Oliver Rowe is a chef, author and stylist whose work focuses on seasonal food. He has just published his first book, Food for All Seasons. He food journey to date takes in a stint at Moro and running his own ultra-local restaurant Konstam at The Prince Albert, which featured on BBC2's The Urban Chef. He now works on a variety of food projects, including a monthly seasonal supper club at the London Cooking Project in Battersea.
Winners in the people categories will be decided by a panel drawn from the teams of the Urban Food Awards partners.
The Urban Food Awards 2016 are run by the Mayor of London, London Food Link and Borough Market. Judging will take place in the autumn and the winners will be announced during Urban Food Fortnight at the Urban Food Feast at Borough Market on 21 September.
London Food Link: London Food Link brings together community food enterprises and projects that are working to make good food accessible to everyone in London to help create a healthy, sustainable and ethical food system for all.
