Bee is an award-winning food writer, reviewer and journalist, currently author of The Kitchen Thinker food column for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella magazine (for which she has been named food journalist of the year three times by the Guild of Food Writers).

She is the author of four previous books, most notably The Hive (John Murray), Swindled (John Murray) and Consider The Fork, published by Particular Books/Penguin Press and by Basic Books/Perseus in the US. Before she became a food writer, she was a Research Fellow in the History of ideas at St John’s College Cambridge.

Many years ago, she was a Masterchef semi-finalist. She is married with three children and lives in Cambridge.