From 1997 until 2000, Parker Bowles was a junior
publicist for Dennis Davidson Associates, a public relations firm. In 1999 there were newspaper reports that he took
cocaine at the
Cannes Film Festival. In 2001, he became
Tatlers food columnist. Since 2002 he has been a food writer, critic and broadcaster. He is a restaurant critic of The
Mail on Sunday and food editor of
Esquire. He is also a contributing editor to
Condé Nast Traveller (UK and US), and
Departures (US), as well as a regular contributor to
Country Life,
Harpers Bazaar and
Town and Country. He was a contributor to
Gordon Ramsay's food magazine television show
The F Word. From 2007 to 2010 he co-presented
Market Kitchen on
Good Food Channel, alongside
Matthew Fort and
Matt Tebbutt, and presented
LBC Radio's
Food and Drink Programme for a year. He was a judge on the
ITV Food series
Food Glorious Food and
Channel 9 Australian cooking series
The Hotplate. In 2017, he was judge, alongside
Matt Moran and Anna Polyviou on Series 1 of
Family Food Fight (Channel 9 Australia) and filmed series two of
Family Food Fight, which was broadcast in late 2018. He is also one of the regular critics on
MasterChef (BBC 1). In 2014, Parker Bowles was named as one of the Top 10 most followed UK restaurant critics on
Twitter.
Cookbooks Parker Bowles's first book, published in 2004, was
E Is For Eating – An Alphabet of Greed. His next,
The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes, was published by
Ebury in 2007.
AbeBooks named the book as one of The 50 Best Food Memoirs. His third,
Full English: A Journey Through the British and Their Food was published in 2009 and won the
Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for best work on
British food. His next book, ''Let's Eat: Recipes From My Kitchen Notebook'', is a compendium of his favourite recipes from his childhood, collected from around the world, and written with the amateur cook in mind. The book was published by
St. Martin's Press and was released in 2012. In October 2014, he launched his fifth book titled ''Let's Eat Meat: Recipes for Prime Cuts, Cheap Bits and Glorious Scraps of Meat,
which was published by Pavilion. His seventh book, Fortnum and Mason – Christmas and Other Winter Feasts
(4th Estate) was released in October 2018. Cooking and the Crown: Royal Recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III'' was released in October 2024.
Business ventures In November 2011, Parker Bowles, along with food writer Matthew Fort and farmer Rupert Ponsonby, launched a
pork scratchings snack named Mr. Trotter's Great British Pork Crackling. Following good reviews and successful sales of the snack, they launched a beer brand in 2013 named Mr Trotter's Chestnut Ale, which was produced in partnership with The
Lancaster Brewing Company and is considered to be the first
chestnut beer made in the UK. Mr. Trotter's has since begun expanding, creating different types of products. == Personal life ==