Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson (born 7th March 1974 in Oxford) is a British food writer and historian. She is married to the political scientist David Runciman and lives in Cambridge. She is the daughter of A N Wilson

Career

For five years (from 1998) she was the food critic for the New Statesman magazine, where she wrote about such subjects as Adolf Hitler's diet [Wilson, Bee (October 9, 1998). "Mein Diat - Adolf Hitler's diet". "New Statesman". (Archived version)] , melons [Wilson, Bee (27th May 2002), 'Bee Wilson searches for the Perfect Melon', "The New Statesman"] , the history of soup [Wilson, Bee (July 24th 1998), 'Rumford's Admirers Believe his Soup could change the world', "New Statesman"] and school meals [Wilson, Bee (17th March 2002, 'Food', New Statesman), ] . She now writes a weekly food column ('The Kitchen Thinker') in "Stella" magazine (The Sunday Telegraph) [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/wine/main.jhtml?xml=/wine/2008/06/08/st_beewilson.xml Bee Wilson: factory food - Telegraph ] ] for which she has twice been named the Guild of Food Writers food journalist of the year, in 2004 and 2008. [ [http://www.gfw.co.uk/awards/?sub=14#contentrow1 Guild Of Food Writers ] ] Wilson is a regular book reviewer for the Sunday Times and the Times Literary Supplement, for whom she has written articles on the history of bread [Wilson, Bee (June 6th 2007) 'The Baguette is Back', "Times Literary Supplement"] and coffee [Wilson, Bee (October 31st 2007), 'Smell the Coffee' "Times Literary Supplement"] . In 2008, she wrote a critic at large article for The New Yorker on the 'end of food'. [Wilson, Bee (May 19th 2008), 'The Last Bite: Is the World's Food System Collapsing?', "The New Yorker"] Wilson has also contributed articles to the London Review of Books, especially on film [ [http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/wils08 LRB · Bee Wilson ] ] For several years, she was a Research Fellow in the History of Ideas at St John's College Cambridge, working on the history of political thought. Her PhD ( from Trinity College, Cambridge) was on early French socialism [Wilson, B. D. 'Charles Fourier and Questions of Women',University of Cambridge, Faculty of History 2002] . She also attended the University of Pennsylvania on a Thouron Award fellowship.She is the author of two books, "The Hive:the Story of the Honeybee and Us" (2004) and "Swindled:from Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee, the Dark History of the Food Cheats" (2008), a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Bibliography

"The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us", John Murray, 2004

"Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee," John Murray (UK) and Princeton University Press (US) 2008

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