Timothy Matthew Hayward (born 9 July 1963 in Bristol) is a British food writer, broadcaster and restaurateur.

Career

Born in Bristol, Hayward was educated at Bristol Grammar School, New College School, and Bournemouth School. 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. He is restaurant critic of the FT Magazine, the Financial Times Weekend supplement.

Personal life

Hayward lives in Cambridge where, with his wife Alison Wright, he is proprietor of Fitzbillies, 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."

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