From fussy child to professional gourmet, Jimi Famurewa tells the story of his life in food. Famurewa is a British-Nigerian broadcaster and food writer, the Evening Standard’s former restaurant critic. He is a regular guest judge on BBC One’s MasterChef and was a lead judge on Channel 4’s The Great Cookbook Challenge with Jamie Oliver.
In his memoir Picky – looking back over his childhood of vegetable refusal and Happy Meals after late-night football practice – food is never just food. It is freighted with upbringing, heritage and sense of self. It carries memories, it transports and it anchors.
With plenty of fast-food nostalgia and a unique perspective as one of the only people of colour to have been a restaurant critic for a major British newspaper,
Famurewa takes a warm look at a life built around food: what it can stand for, and why you should always pay attention to what someone is eating. He talks to commissioning editor, books at the Guardian, Lucy Knight.
