Andrew Tolmie

* The author of this blog has been cooking both professionally and for personal pleasure for nearly thirty years in Greece
* the USA
* France
* Italy and the UK. For ten years
* during the nineties
* he operated his own catering company specialising in corporate entertaining in a range of small historic venues in the centre of London: Dr.Johnson's House
* St.John's Gate
* The House of St. Barnabas
* Peacock House
* and The Freud Museum
* amongst others. Regular clients included the US Embassy
* Glaxo
* Bankers Trust
* Monument Oil
* and Glenmorangie. Passionate about chocolate
* he worked closely with the european chocolate producers for five years. His diverse experience encompasses raising ducks in the Greek Islands on a diet of mulberries
* pig-killing in winter on the Larzac plateau and harvesting hops in the Kent countryside. He now divides his time between the culinary extremes of London and Tuscany
* making the best of the very different gastronomic opportunities offered by each place.