Bee Wilson: Food, the Vital Frontier

In this episode, celebrated food writer Bee Wilson joins Catherine Cleary, journalist and food writer with The Irish Times, to discuss our evolving relationship with food and the way we live (and eat) now. Bee Wilson is a journalist and historian and the author of five books on food-related subjects, the most recent being The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change (2019). She has been described by Jane Kramer of the New Yorker as having “the kind of narrative charm that could carry large chunks of scholarship; weave them together; sprinkle them with asides, experiences, suppositions, and strong opinions; and entertain you.”

 

Bee Wilson is chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

 

This First Thought Talk was recorded in front of a live audience at NUI Galway as part of Galway International Arts Festival’s Autumn 2019 First Thought Talks programme https://www.giaf.ie/talks/food-the-vital-frontier