Description
Join acclaimed writers Samantha Ellis and Bee Wilson for a fascinating conversation exploring food, memory, identity, and storytelling.
From Ellis’s evocative memoirs about heritage and home to Wilson’s insightful writing on the politics and pleasures of eating, both authors delve into how what we cook and consume shapes who we are.
Together, they discuss the personal and cultural histories woven through recipes, the emotional charge of family meals, and the power of food writing to nourish connection across generations. This intimate event promises to be a rich and thoughtful dialogue between two of Britain’s most engaging literary voices.
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About the Speakers
Samantha Ellis
Samantha Ellis is the author of How to be a Heroine, and Take Courage: Anne Brontë and the Art of Life and her plays include Cling to me Like Ivy and How to Date a Feminist. She is writing her third book for Chatto, about the endangered language Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. She also wrote the introduction to Vintage Books’s edition of Agnes Grey.
Bee Wilson
Bee Wilson is a British food writer, historian, and journalist known for her insightful explorations of food’s intersection with history, psychology, and culture. Born in Oxford in 1974, she graduated in history from Trinity College, Cambridge, earned a master’s degree in political science from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is a six-time winner of the Fortnum and Mason food writing awards
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