Gurdeep Loyal

About Gurdeep Loyal

Gurdeep Loyal is an award-winning food and travel writer and expert in culinary trends. He is the author of Flavour Heroes: 15 Modern Pantry Ingredients To Amplify Your Cooking and was winner of the Jane Grigson Trust Award for his debut cookbook, Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation.

He has over 20 years’ experience in food and drink, building his career at food institutions including Innocent Drinks, Harrods Food Halls and M&S Food, where he was the head of future food trends. Gurdeep is a monthly columnist for Olive Magazine and Scribehound Food, as well as being a regular guest on BBC 1’s Saturday Kitchen.

He has written about food, travel and diasporic culinary cultures of the world for the likes of Delicious, Conde Nast Traveller and The Independent.