Gurdeep Loyal is an award-winning food/travel writer and culinary trends expert. 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 the food and drink world - 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 trends columnist for Olive Magazine, as well as being a regular guest on BBC 1’s Saturday Kitchen. He has written about food, travel and gastronomic cultures for the likes of: Delicious Magazine, Conde Nast Traveller, The Independent, and Borough Market.