Bee Wilson

Plenary chair at the Oxford Food Symposium

Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson (born 7 March 1974) is a British food writer, journalist and historian and the author of five books on food-related subjects.

Biography

She attended Trinity College, Cambridge,[1] and it was from Cambridge University that she received her doctorate for a dissertation on "early French utopian socialism".[2]

For five years from 1998, Wilson was the food critic of the New Statesman magazine, where she wrote about subjects such as school meals.[3]

After that, Wilson wrote the "Kitchen Thinker" column in the Sunday Telegraph's "Stella" magazine for twelve years.[4] For the column, she was named the Guild of Food Writers food journalist of the year in 2004, 2008 and 2009.[5]

Wilson has written book reviews and other articles for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Times Literary Supplement.[6][7] She has written "Page Turner" blogs for The New Yorker on ideas about the recipe.[8][9] She has contributed articles to the London Review of Books, on subjects such as film, biography, history and music.[10]

In 2016, her book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat won the Special Commendation Award at the Andre Simon Food and Drink Awards[11] and Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards.[12] That book was described in The Financial Times as being 'about the pleasure of eating and how we can reconnect with this'.[13]

Wilson is chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.[14]

Reception

According to The New Yorker writer Jane Kramer, "Bee Wilson describes herself as a food writer. That's half the story". In Kramer's opinion, Wilson writes on food as it relates to history, ideas and human life.[15] In The New York Times, Dawn Drzal described Wilson as "a congenial kitchen oracle".[16]

Works

  • The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us, John Murray, 2004
  • Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee, John Murray and Princeton University Press, 2008
  • Sandwich: A Global History, Reaktion Books, 2010
  • Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Basic Books, 2012 (history of kitchen technology, from fire to the AeroPress)[17]
Translated into Spanish as La importancia del tenedor. Historia, inventos y artilugios en la cocina, Turner, 2013
  • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat, Basic Books and Fourth Estate[18]
Translated into Spanish as El primer bocado. Cómo aprendemos a comer, Turner, 2016

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Bee Wilson (1992)". Alumni Profiles. Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Raymond Sokolov. "Back to the Chopping Board". Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen (book review). Literary Review, London. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
  3. ↑ Bee Wilson "Food", New Statesman, 17 March 2002
  4. ↑ "Telegraph website". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Guild of Food Writers". Gfw.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  6. ↑ Bee Wilson, Bee "The Baguette is Back", Times Literary Supplement, 6 June 2007
  7. ↑ Bee Wilson "Smell the Coffee", Times Literary Supplement, 31 October 2007
  8. ↑ Wilson, Bee. "Pleasures of the Literary Meal". The New Yorker. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  9. ↑ Wilson, Bee. "The Allure of Imagined Meals". The New Yorker. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  10. ↑ London Review of Books. "Bee Wilson". London Review of Books. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  11. ↑ "2015 Awards: Food". Andre Simon. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  12. ↑ "Food and Drink Awards 2017". Fortnum and Mason. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  13. ↑ Russell, Polly. "First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson". Financial Times. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
  14. ↑ Duguid, Naomi. "Report on the Oxford Symposium 2015". Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  15. ↑ Kramer, Jane (18 March 2013). "A Fork of One's Own". The New Yorker.
  16. ↑ Drzal, Dawn. "The Science of Sizzle". Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  17. ↑ Poole, Steven. "Consider the Fork Review". The Guardian. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  18. ↑ Finney, Clare. "It's Not Naughty. It's Not Virtuous. It's Food". Borough Market. Archived from the original on 6 October 2015. "We don't have an instinct that tells us what to eat... It's not a moral thing. It's a skill we learn".
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