Bronwen and Francis Percival

Location: London, England

Expertise: Cheese, Wine

Bronwen is the cheese buyer for Neal's Yard Dairy in London.
Francis writes on food and wine for The World of Fine Wine.
Together, they host the London Gastronomy Seminars.

Experience

Bronwen Percival is the cheese buyer for Neal’s Yard Dairy in London. In 2012, she instigated a biennial conference on the Science of Artisan Cheese. Along with Dr. Benjamin Wolfe, she co-founded the website MicrobialFoods.org, a scientific resource for producers, purveyors, and enthusiasts of artisan microbial foods, and more recently she served on the editorial board of the Oxford Companion to Cheese.

Francis Percival writes on food and wine for The World of Fine Wine. His work won Louis Roederer Best International Wine Columnist in 2013 and Pio Cesare Food & Wine Writer of the Year in 2015. Francis is also a judge in The World of Fine Wine World’s Best Wine List Awards. His work has appeared in Decanter and the Financial Times in the UK and Culture, Saveur, and Gourmet in the US. Besides writing, Francis also teaches classes for Neal’s Yard Dairy.

Bronwen and Francis cofounded and host the London Gastronomy Seminars, a long-running series of lectures and talks in London dedicated to making the technical side of food and drink fun and accessible.

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