Colin Spencer (b. 1933, London) is an English author, journalist, and broadcaster. He is best known as a food critic for The Guardian.

Spencer, who is openly bisexual, met his lover John Tasker in Brighton in 1957, when both were 24 years old. Their off-and-on two-year relationship dramatically changed when Spencer married archaeologist Gillian Chapman in Oct 1959. Tasker went to Australia where he became a theatre director, and died of cancer in 1988. Tasker had arranged for his letters to be returned to Spencer. Upon re-reading them, Spencer published his book Which of Us Two as a form of atonement.

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