Tom Herbert

I am a fifth generation baker with hot bread in my genes and a proven ability to share the good bread message,winning people over to the light side.

Fresh out of baking college, I won Young Baker of the Year with an ambition to ‘do for bread, what Rick Stein has done for fish’. With a wealth of artisanal nous and a lively baking and business heritage, Hobbs House Bakery and I have gone on to collect numerous awards, been featured in the aforementioned Rick Stein’s Food Heroes, as a Super Food Hero, and also featured in the Independent’s top 50 food shops.

As a baker, I am passionate about eating, sharing and making bread and I regularly give talks, demonstrations and bread making courses. I’m a baker with a breadth of hands on business experience. I am the eldest of six and daddy to four lush children, Anna and I have been married for 18 years and we live near Stroud. For the last 26 years I’ve worked for my family business Hobbs House Bakery, doing in my time everything from, cleaning to business strategy and planning, product development, innovation, marketing, retail, wholesale and online sales, teaching, and operations. I’m one half of Channel4 and Discovery Networks Baker Brothers. With my brother Henry we’ve published two books and I’m working on my third. I’m an ambassador for the charity Tearfund. My work has taken me all around the globe and up and down the UK. Last year I judged the Golden Fork at the Great Taste Awards, and was listed in the Grocer Magazine’s top 50 influential foodies. I love working with people that are alive with passion and skill for what they do, and helping people to find in themselves the deep embers of passion, that with encouragement and oxygen grow to a life giving fire. 

Tom teaches baking at our Cookery School.

 Tom tweets as twitter.com/Tom_Herbert

Tom spoke at the Do Lectures, hear his talk here thedoblog.com/blog/tom-herbert

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