A A Gill

Food critic

Edinburgh-born AA Gill is one of the most widely-read food critics in Britain, notorious for his acerbic restaurant reviews in The Sunday Times and Vanity Fair. He studied at Central St Martins and the Slade, harbouring early ambitions to become a painter, but gave up, fearing he lacked talent. Gill came to writing in his thirties, working for small art magazines before progressing to Tatler with an anonymous feature about his experience in a detox clinic. Now 30 years sober, the severely dyslexic Gill dictated his 2015 memoir Pour Me to a copy taker, documenting the year between the end of his first marriage and the end of his battle with alcoholism. No stranger to controversy, Gill was the subject of over 60 complaints to the PCC over the course of five years to 2010 and has managed to offend variously the Welsh, the English, those from the Isle of Man, Clare Balding and Mary Beard.

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