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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.