Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson is a food writer and historian who is chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Her most recent book, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, was about the psychology of eating and how we can change our diets. In 2016 it won the Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards. She writes, on food and other subjects, for a wide range of publications including the London Review of Books, the Guardian,The New York Times and Borough Market Blogs. Bee wrote the "Kitchen Thinker" column in the Sunday Telegraph's "Stella" magazine for twelve years and subsequently was named the Guild of Food Writers food journalist of the year in 2004, 2008 and 2009.