19 Facts About Bee Wilson

Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson is a British food writer and journalist.

Bee Wilson writes the "Table Talk" column for The Wall Street Journal, and is a campaigner for food education through the charity TastEd.

Bee Wilson has said that she learned how to cook sitting at the kitchen table, reading her mother's cookbooks, starting with The Penguin Cookery Book.

Bee Wilson took an undergraduate degree in history at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was taught by Orlando Figes, and graduated in 1992.

Bee Wilson then received a master's degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania while on a fellowship from the Thouron Award.

Bee Wilson earned her doctorate from Cambridge University for a dissertation on early French utopian socialism in 2002.

In 2016, Bee Wilson's book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat was a change of direction.

In 2020, The Bookseller reported that Bee Wilson was writing her first cookbook, The Secret of Cooking.

Alongside writing books, Wilson has been a prolific journalist, mostly writing about food but sometimes covering other subjects such as film, biography, music and history.

For five years from 1998, Bee Wilson was the weekly food critic of the New Statesman magazine, where she wrote about subjects including school meals, the history of food and ingredients such as vanilla, tinned tomatoes, melons and butter.

Bee Wilson has written book reviews and other articles for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and The Times Literary Supplement.

Bee Wilson has written "Page Turner" blogs for The New Yorker on ideas about the recipe.

Bee Wilson has contributed articles to the London Review of Books on subjects such as film, biography, history and music, as well as the history of the restaurant in London.

Bee Wilson has written a series of "Long Reads" for The Guardian on subjects ranging from clean eating to ultra-processed food to the history of the British curryhouse.

Bee Wilson was the chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery from 2015 to 2017.

In 2019, Bee Wilson co-founded a UK food education charity, TastEd, which describes itself as working "to give every child the opportunity to experience the joy of fresh vegetables and fruits".

Bee Wilson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.

Bee Wilson married the Cambridge political scientist David Runciman, but he left the marriage of 23 years in June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Kramer's opinion, writing about Consider the Fork, Bee Wilson writes on food as it relates to history, ideas and human life.