Pioneering TV Chef: TV Presenter: Co-founder Mr Christian’s Deli: Award-winning Food Writer and Journalist: HMAV BOUNTY historian: Whodunnit author
Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008, The Guild Of Fine Foods
In the 1970s Glynn Christian changed the UK’s world of delicatessen and specialty ingredients with MR CHRISTIAN’S PROVISIONS in Portobello Road market, and was subsequently honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild of Fine Foods.
Glynn pioneered modern TV cookery on BBC-TV Breakfast Time three times weekly and helped found both the Guild of Food Writers and the Great Taste Awards.
He was the first Food Editor of ELLE UK and wrote weekly for The Sunday Telegraph. The author of many cookery books, his special interest is ingredients; REAL FLAVOURS was voted Best Food Guide in the World.The up-dated version is TASTE! How to Choose the Best Deli Ingredients. That and 350+ KITCHEN HACKS & HINTS were published by Grub Street in 2021.
His ground-breaking books about his gt-gt-gt-gt grandfather Fletcher Christian, leader of the 1789 mutiny on HMAV BOUNTY, have been definitive works of reference since 1982. They include FRAGILE PARADISE, MRS CHRISTIAN – BOUNTY MUTINEER (historical fiction) and THE TRUTH ABOUT the MUTINY on HMAV BOUNTY – and the FATE of FLETCHER CHRISTIAN (Pen & Sword).
THE DELI-DETECTIVE WRAPS IT UP (Hendon Books, 2023) is the first of a series of Portobello Road whodunnits.
Some early reviews:
Dan Heath’s foodie Gosh Factors are worth the price alone: Fast paced, full of surprises, brilliant characterisations, and a foodie’s dream- this was the best summer read for ages!: . . . amongst the best I have ever read. Bravo Maestro Glynn: A murder or two is never funny, but that’s no reason not to have fun in the telling. not just murders, but a pacey insight into the London of the time: . . .have to admit I cried at the end: A tasty mix of murder, mayhem, mystery and deli-food delights: I want to be Princess Luciana when I grow up: An entertaining, easy read with serious themes but I’m still not sure I’m holding my handbag correctly. From Amazon Books internationally.