Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson

Beatrice Dorothy Bee Wilson (born March 7, 1974 in Oxford , England ) is an English cultural historian who works as a journalist and author and writes about food and our relationship with them. She has received several awards for her achievements.

Life

Wilson is the daughter of the literary scholar and Shakespeare connoisseur Katherine Duncan-Jones. She received her PhD from Trinity College (Cambridge) with a thesis on early socialism . After graduating, she worked as a post-doctoral student in the history of ideas at St John's College (Cambridge) . She attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA on a Thornton Award scholarship .

Since 1998, Wilson worked for five years as a food critic for the British magazine New Statesman . Since 2003 she has worked for the Stella supplement to the English Sunday newspaper The Sunday Telegraph entitled The Kitchen Thinker . For this column, she was recognized three times as the best journalist in the field of food. She regularly writes book reviews for The Sunday Times (UK) and The Times Literary Supplement . She also writes for The London Review of Books , mostly film reviews .

In 2008, Wilson wrote a major fundamental article about the end of food for The New Yorker . Since 2004 three of her books on food and nutrition have been published, the last one on cooking and eating tools was also published in German in 2014 by Insel-Verlag in Berlin.

Wilson is married to political scientist David Runciman and lives in Cambridge, England.

Publications

• still as BD Wilson: Charles Fourier and the Question of Women . University of Cambridge, Faculty of History, Cambridge, England 2002.
• The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us . John Murray, London 2004, ISBN 0-7195-6598-7 .
• From Poison and Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee. The Dark History of Food Fraud . Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-13820-6 .
• Sandwich: A Global History , Reaction Books, 2010
• Consider the Fork: A History of How we Cook and Eat , illustrated by Anabel Lee. Basic Books, New York City, USA 2012, ISBN 978-0-465-02176-5 . As an e-book: ISBN 978-0-465-03332-4 .
  • German by Laura Su Bischoff: Using the example of the fork. A history of cooking and eating tools . Insel Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-458-17619-0 .
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat , Basic Books (US) and Fourth Estate (UK)

Web links

• Biography in the London Review of Books (en.)