Epicurean
It’s a piercing, sharp weapon associated with the Devil. How did this unlikely tool become the West’s most popular and indispensable utensil? Bee Wilson on its history in Consider the Fork.
Bee Wilson is a food writer, historian, and author of three books, including Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat and Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee. More
She has been named BBC Radio’s Food Writer of the Year and is a three-time Guild of Food Writers’ Food Journalist of the Year. Wilson served as the food columnist for the New Statesman for five years, and currently writes a weekly food column for the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine. She lives in Cambridge, England.