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 figure in later novels.) From the mid-1930s Day-Lewis was able to earn his living by writing. Four of the Blake novels – "A Tangled Web, Penknife in My Heart, The Deadly Joker, The Private Wound" – do not feature Strangeways. "Minute for Murder" is set against the background of Day-Lewis's Second World War experiences in the Ministry of Information. "Head of a Traveller" features as a principal character a well-known poet, frustrated and suffering writer's block, whose best poetic days are long behind him. Readers and critics have speculated whether the author is describing himself, one of his colleagues, or