Jeremy Round (1957–1989) was a cookery writer and journalist for The Independent newspaper, which has been praised by food lovers such as Elizabeth David and Marco Pierre White.
It was re-issued in 2001[2] and chosen as 38th in the 50 best cookbooks of all time as selected by The Observer Food Monthly team (Jay Rayner, Bill Buford, Rachel Cooke and Allan Jenkins) in 2010 [1] In August 1999, The Independent celebrated Round's work by publishing many admiring comments from the world of cooking.
"[3] Clarissa Dickson Wright: "He was the bearer of the food torch which passed from Elizabeth David to Jane Grigson to him.
I still use his book Independent Cook and I will not lend it to anyone - I'm paranoid someone will nick it";[3] Marco Pierre White: "He was a rare man - he hasn't been replaced.
And what I chose to represent him, with his warm approval, in an anthology of writing about food was a poem ["Utopia"] he wrote on realising, from something Paul Levy had written, that he had hitherto been part of the vulgar herd who did not know that tea is seldom drunk with food in China.