Fig Tree, 2019

A memoir of grief, love and cake, A Half Baked Idea tells the story of my journey from the criminal bar to studying pâtisserie at Le Cordon Bleu. It won the Fortnum & Mason Debut Food Book Award.

Headline, 2022

A cookbook celebrating the ultimate ingredient in every form from chicken skin butter to flaky paratha. Nigella Lawson called Butter her “dream book”, and it was a book of the year in The Times, delicious magazine, BBC Food Programme, The Week, and The Spectator.

My Spectator recipe column, the Vintage Chef, brings together food history, recipe development and personal narrative. It’s been shortlisted for several Fortnum & Mason and Guild of Food Writers awards.

I also write a fortnightly food and drink newsletter, The Take Away, for 33,000 subscribers.

Marmalade: A Very British Obsession is just one of the long reads I’ve written recently, and explores Britain’s enduring fascination with a preserve that comes from an impossibly bitter, sour fruit that isn’t native to our shores. It was a notable mention in 2021’s The Best American Food Writing essay anthology.

It has also led me to becoming a returning judge at the World’s Original Marmalade Awards.

I regularly review restaurants for North-West restaurant review website, Manchester Confidentials. I’ve given my thoughts on everything from robots waiters in Cheetham Hill to fine-dining in Liverpool.

I have hosted the Spectator’s food and drink podcast, Table Talk since 2019, interviewing everyone from Jessie Burton to Ed Balls about their life through food. We have had over half a million downloads, with an average of 10,000 listeners per episode.

Radio 4’s comedy panel show, Museum of Curiosity, in which ‘three distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary museum.’ My contribution? A jar of marmalade, of course.

Duckworth, 2022

I was honoured to be asked to write a foreword for the new edition of Julia Child’s seminal memoir, My Life in France.

I’ve appeared on Women’s Hour, You and Yours, Saturday Live, Times Radio, and talking about everything from the economics of Pizza Hut to the history of pumpkin spice lattes, and have guested on countless podcasts.

I regularly speak at bookshops and literary festivals, and visit schools, private companies and groups about food, writing, grief, and butter.