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Kit Chapman
is the Proprietor of The
Castle at Taunton. He is
a well-known personality on the British hotel and
restaurant scene, and as a bon viveur, writer and
television presenter, he has been a vigorous campaigner
for improving culinary standards in this country.
He is also the architect of the hotel’s regular programme
of literary and cultural events, and over the past
thirty-five years, he has attracted many of the world’s
greatest chamber music ensembles to play at The Castle
for its annual season of winter weekend festivals.
My Archipelago is
Kit’s fourth book. An Innkeeper’s Diary, published
in 1999, is an amusing and waspish account of a year
in his life at The Castle. And his two volumes of
Great British Chefs were award-winning studies of
the state of gastronomy in the UK.
In 1989, Kit was appointed MBE in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours for his work in hospitality and the tourism
industry.
Other titles by Kit Chapman:
Great British Chefs (Octopus Publishing Group, 1989), Great British
Chefs 2 (Mitchell Beazley, 1995), An
Innkeeper’s Diary (Weidenfeld & Nicolson / Orion, 1999) |
