Soup with soul

RECENTLY, I received a present of a gorgeous new cookbook, co-written by former Ballymaloe student Tommi Miers, who earlier this year won the Masterchef title.

Since then Tommi has been in demand for appearances on TV, radio shows, openings and regular articles in trendy food magazines. In the midst of it all, she has retained her strong social conscience.

She and her co-author Annabel Buckingham though about doing a food book to raise money for homeless charities in London. Neither had any experience of the publishing world and no funding for the project but they decided on soup as the book’s focus.