Derek Brown (editor)
# Derek Brown (editor)

Derek Brown (born 1944 or 1945) is a British food writer and was editor of the Michelin Red Guides; the first non-French person to do so.

Brown attended a hotel school then worked hotel front desks and in restaurants, then became a Michelin Guide reviewer in his early 30s.

He appeared as a castaway on the BBC Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 25 May 2003.

