Tamasin Day-Lewis Tamasin Day-Lewis Lydia Tamasin Day-Lewis (born 17 September 1953) is an English television chef and food critic, who has also published a dozen books about food, restaurants, recipes and places. She writes regularly for "The Daily Telegraph", "Vanity Fair", and "Vogue". Day-Lewis was born in Hammersmith, London. Day-Lewis is the daughter of Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis, who served as poet laureate of the United Kingdom in his last years, and his second wife, British actress Jill Balcon. Her brothers are actor Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Day-Lewis, who wrote a biography of their father. After attending Bedales School, she read English
Cecil Day-Lewis of an aunt, spending summer holidays with relatives in County Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and at Wadham College, Oxford. In Oxford, Day-Lewis became part of the circle gathered around W. H. Auden and helped him to edit "Oxford Poetry 1927". His first collection of poems, "Beechen Vigil", appeared in 1925. In 1928 Day-Lewis married Constance Mary King, the daughter of a Sherborne master (i.e. teacher). Day-Lewis worked as a schoolmaster in three schools, including Larchfield School, Helensburgh, Scotland (now Lomond School). During the 1940s he had a long and troubled love affair with the novelist Rosamond Lehmann.