Tim Hayward

Born in Bristol, Hayward was educated at Bristol Grammar School, New College School, and Bournemouth School.^[1] He later attended the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design.

He has published several books including Food DIY (2012) and Knife: The Cult, Craft and Culture of the Cook's Knife (2016) which has now been translated into 8 languages. He is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet and has also written and presented several radio documentaries, including the 5-part The Gut Instinct - A Social History (2018), Fungi: The New Frontier (2022) and Bacteria - The Tiny Giants which won Gold in the 2023 New York Festival radio awards.^[2]

He is restaurant critic of the FT Magazine, the Financial Times Weekend supplement.^[3]

Hayward lives in Cambridge where, with his wife Alison Wright, he is proprietor of Fitzbillies,^[4] a hundred-year-old bakery, café and local institution.

In November 2020, he was admitted to Addenbrooke's Hospital with COVID-19, subsequently requiring treatment using a ventilator and suffering a pulmonary embolism. He was discharged after a month, having spent 14 days in a coma, and later described himself as "lucky to have lived."^[5]

• 2011–2014 Fire & Knives – Food Quarterly. (Editor)
• 2013 Food DIY: How to Make Your Own Everything^[6]
• 2015 The DIY Cook
• 2016 Knife: The Cult, Craft and Culture of the Cook's Knife
• 2017 The Modern Kitchen: Objects That Changed the Way We Cook, Eat and Live
• 2019 Fitzbillies: Stories and Recipes from a 100-year-old Cambridge Bakery (with Alison Wright)
• 2021 Loaf Story: A Love-Letter to Bread, with Recipes
• 2022 Charcuterie From Scratch
• 2024 Steak: The Whole Story