fiona Beckett
Fiona Beckett is an award-winning food and drink journalist, author and web publisher with 20 years of experience of writing for the UK’s top newspapers and magazines.
* started her career on the features desk of Today and has since spanned the world of tabloid and broadsheet journalism, writing weekly columns for The Times, Guardian and Daily Mail (the latter on wine) and regular features for the Telegraph and Sunday Times food pages. In 2002 she was voted Food Journalist of the Year by the British Guild of Food Writers and was a runner-up in the Best Drink Writer category in the 2007 Glenfiddich awards
* has written for the UK's leading food, drink and lifestyle magazines including BBC Good Food, Country Living, Delicious, Good Housekeeping, Sainsbury's Magazine and Waitrose Food Illustrated and for international food titles such as Bon Appetit and Australian Gourmet Traveller. She is currently a contributing editor to the wine magazine Decanter.
* has interviewed many top chefs and food and drink personalities including Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal, Antonio Carluccio, Rick Stein, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray of the River Cafe, Charlie Trotter and the American wine critic Robert Parker
* has reviewed restaurants for the Sunday Telegraph and the Times and worked as an inspector for restaurant guides including the Good Food Guide and Time Out
* has written 19 books on subjects as diverse as wine, beer and student cooking (the Beyond Baked Beans series). Her most recent book is the timely The Frugal Cook (Absolute Press) which has its own accompanying blog thefrugalcook.blogspot.com
* Her next, Fiona Beckett's Cheese Course, will be published by Ryland, Peters & Small this autumn - again with a blog, The Cheeselover thecheeselover.blogspot.com
* is one of the UK's leading experts on food and drink pairing with her own website matchingfoodandwine.com
* also runs a budget cookery site for students beyondbakedbeans.com which was listed among the Independent's 50 best websites for foodies as one of the 8 best for "recipes, chat and reference" It has an acccompanying Facebook page on which students can upload their own recipes, videos and tips.
* has appeared on local and national radio and TV including UK Food's Good Food Live, Radio 4's Woman's Hour, You & Yours and the Food Programme and Radio 5 Live's Matthew Bannister show.
Contact
fionab@the2fionas.com
fiona@matchingfoodandwine.com
Twitter: winematcher, frugalcook
Skills
Feature writing (including food-related travel features), 'opinion' and other topical columns, trendspotting, interviews with chefs and food producers, restaurant reviews, recipe development (food & cocktails), recipe editing, matching food and wine, beer and other drinks, conducting tastings, copywriting, food photography (to web standard). Excellent contacts in the food and drink field.
