MASTERCHEF judge Jay Rayner will be preaching his 10 Food Commandments to audiences in Swindon on Thursday, October 20.

The original Ten Commandments have very little to offer when it comes to the complex business of how and what we eat and the award-winning restaurant critic Jay Rayner has decided it’s time to act.

Enter our new culinary Moses with a new set of hand-tooled commandments for this food-obsessed age.

He deals once and for all with questions like whether it is ever okay to covet thy neighbour's oxen (it is), eating with your hands (very important indeed) and if you should cut off the fat (no).

After a hugely successful run of live dates in 2014-16 that featured Jay’s previous publication, My Dining Hell, and saw him examine our love affair with lousy reviews, Jay is embarking on a whole new tour and will be stopping at the Swindon Arts Centre.

The Ten (Food) Commandments combines reportage and anecdotes with recipes worthy of adoration and in this audio-visual romp Jay attempts to lead us to the edible Promised Land.

Jay is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, best known for his work as a Masterchef judge & restaurant critic for the Observer. He is a former Critic of the Year and Restaurant Critic of the Year, and in the 2014 British Press Awards he was shortlisted for both Critic of the Year and Specialist Journalist of the Year.

In a recent survey of journalists and the public by UK Press Gazette Jay was voted the most influential food and drink journalist in Britain.

  • Jay Rayner: The 10 Food Commandments will be at Swindon Arts Centre on Thursday, October 20. Tickets cost £20.50, for more information and to book visit swindontheatres.co.uk or call the ticket office on 01793 524 481.