The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen

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In 2020, her book The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change won Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards [11] In 2020, she was one of the judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. [28] She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. [29] Personal life [ edit ] After that, Wilson wrote the "Kitchen Thinker" column in The Sunday Telegraph 's "Stella" magazine for twelve years. [14] For the column, she was named the Guild of Food Writers food journalist of the year in 2004, 2008 and 2009. [15] Serves 4-6, depending on what else you are having with it (it’s a good idea to double it and make two) I also felt good about the fact that I was keeping myself and the children nourished. We seemed to connect more deeply over meals than we had before. My teenage daughter and I have always shared a love of eggs, but in the past we tended to eat them for lunch in limited ways (boiled, scrambled, shakshuka). Together, we branched out, taking it in turns to cook them and discovering new methods for making an omelette especially tender and delicious. (When you are making a basic omelette and want an instant fix to improve the texture, add a dab of dijon mustard. Dijon is both an acid and an emulsifier and these two things together do transformative things.)

The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the

In 2005, she published her first book: The Hive: the Story of the Honeybee and Us published by John Murray. The Independent called it a "sprightly hymn to the honeybee". [5] It examined the human relationship with honeybees and the way in which the beehive has been used as a metaphor for human models of work, love, politics and life. It also included honey-based recipes. Be brave. Drop the diet. Make peace. If any book can effect long-term weight loss, it should be this one", wrote Melanie Reid in The Times, reviewing First Bite. [33] In The Observer, Rachel Cooke wrote that "Wilson is a brilliant researcher" and "has unearthed science that makes sense of our most intimate and tender worlds." [34] Wilson attended Trinity College, Cambridge, as an undergraduate studying history, [2] and it was from Cambridge University that she received her doctorate for a dissertation on early French utopian socialism. [3] Duguid, Naomi. "Report on the Oxford Symposium 2015". Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery . Retrieved 5 October 2015.

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Wilson, Bee (12 January 2017). "Who Killed the Great British Curry House?". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 March 2021. Wilson, Bee (15 July 2015). "Pleasures of the Literary Meal". The New Yorker . Retrieved 5 October 2015. After a brief academic career as a research fellow in the History of Ideas at St John's College, Cambridge, Wilson began writing a series of books linking food with wider themes of health, psychology and history.

The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen

When you’re making an omelet and want to significantly improve the texture, add a little Dijon mustard. It makes the omelet both tender and tangy. Writing in The Financial Times, Wendell Steavenson described Wilson's 2019 book The Way We Eat Now as "clear and vital reading...an authoritative and brilliantly compelling description of the economic, political and emotional issues around our food." [36] Wilson is a distinguished foodwriter whose earlier titles (which include First Bite, Consider the Fork, and How We Eat Now) along with her journalism here and in the States, bear witness to what I consider her particular genius for matching intellectual rigour with emotional openness — on top of which she writes like a dream. Hers is always an engaging voice, but The Secret of Cooking is a more intimate articulation, at once confiding, comforting, curious and celebratory. I called this Wilson’s first recipe book, but it is really a deeply thoughtful and elegantly conversational enquiry into the very nature of cooking, out of which the recipes seem to flow organically, the one leading on to another, giving you the time and the structure to develop your own sense, your own repertoire, and a way of being in the kitchen that actually suits you.

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In 2019, 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". [26] TastEd (short for Taste Education) is part of the Sapere network of food education, which is used in a number of countries including Finland, Sweden and France and which "was created out of the conviction that taste education is good for health". [27] Lezard, Nicholas (16 September 2005). "The extraordinary brilliance of bees". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 March 2021.