Bee Wilson

Bee Wilson’s books include First Bite: How We Learn to Eat and The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in a World of Change.

In the LRB Archive:

• Sun-Dappled Propaganda: ‘On Chapel Sands’ · 21 November 2019

  • On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons by Laura Cumming

• Mmmm, chicken nuggets: The Victorian Restaurant Scene · 15 August 2019

  • The London Restaurant: 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael

• It was sheer heaven: Just Being British · 9 May 2019

  • Exceeding My Brief: Memoirs of a Disobedient Civil Servant by Barbara Hosking

• What Dettol Can’t Fix: A Life in Lists · 13 September 2018

  • Elisabeth’s Lists: A Family Story by Lulah Ellender

• Merely a Warning that a Noun is Coming: The ‘Littlehampton Libels’ · 8 February 2018

  • The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England by Christopher Hilliard

• I am the fifth dimension!: Gef the Talking Mongoose · 27 July 2017

  • Gef!: The Strange Tale of an Extra Special Talking Mongoose by Christopher Josiffe

• Il Duce and the Red Alfa: Clara and Benito · 16 March 2017

  • Claretta: Mussolini’s Last Lover by R.J.B. Bosworth

• A Little Talk in Downing St · 17 November 2016

  • My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley by Stefan Buczacki

• Winklepickers, Tinned Salmon, Hair Cream: Jonathan Meades · 14 July 2016

  • An Encyclopedia of Myself by Jonathan Meades

• Like Cold Oysters · 19 May 2016

  • Edith Piaf: A Cultural History by David Looseley

• She gives me partridges: Alma Mahler · 5 November 2015

  • Malevolent Muse: The Life of Alma Mahler by Oliver Hilmes, translated by Donald Arthur

• Video: Alma Mahler · 2 November 2015

• Throw it out the window: Lady Constance Lytton · 16 July 2015

  • Lady Constance Lytton: Aristocrat, Suffragette, Martyr by Lyndsey Jenkins

• Punk Counterpunk · 20 November 2014

  • Vivienne Westwood by Vivienne Westwood and Ian Kelly

• How much meat is too much? · 20 March 2014

  • Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat by Philip Lymbery, with Isabel Oakeshott
  • Planet Carnivore by Alex Renton

• Laertes has a daughter: The Redgraves · 6 June 2013

  • The Redgraves: A Family Epic by Donald Spoto
  • The House of Redgrave: The Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty by Tim Adler

• Musical Chairs with Ribbentrop: Nancy Astor · 20 December 2012

  • Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor by Adrian Fort

• ‘You have a nice country, I would like to be your son’: Prince Bertie · 27 September 2012

  • Bertie: A Life of Edward VII by Jane Ridley

• Spending Hitler’s Money: The D-Day Spies · 19 July 2012

  • Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre

• I and My Wife: Eva Braun · 5 January 2012

  • Eva Braun: Life with Hitler by Heike Görtemaker, translated by Damion Searls

• Look beyond the lips: Hedy Lamarr · 28 July 2011

  • Hedy Lamarr: The Most Beautiful Woman in Film by Ruth Barton

• They Supped with the King: Mistresses · 6 January 2011

  • Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman by Elizabeth Abbott

• Stuck with Your Own Face: The Beauty Industry · 8 July 2010

  • Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones

• Why are you so fat?: Coco Chanel · 7 January 2010

  • Perfumes: The A-Z Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
  • Chanel: Her Life, Her World, The Woman behind the Legend by Edmonde Charles-Roux, translated by Nancy Amphoux
  • The Allure of Chanel by Paul Morand, translated by Euan Cameron
  • Coco before Chanel directed by Anne Fontaine

• Cloche Hats and Perms: Bonnie and Clyde · 10 September 2009

  • Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde by Jeff Guinn

• They didn’t have my fire: the New Food Memoirists · 25 June 2009

  • The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

• No Strings: Pinocchio · 1 January 2009

  • Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, translated by Geoffrey Brock

• The butler didn’t do it: The First Detectives · 19 June 2008

  • The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale

• How Do You Pay?: Falling for Michael Moore · 1 November 2007

  • Citizen Moore: An American Maverick by Roger Rapoport
  • Manufacturing Dissent directed by Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk
  • Sicko directed by Michael Moore

• Boudoir Politics: Lola Montez · 7 June 2007

  • Lola Montez: Her Life and Conquests by James Morton

• Pink and Bare: Nicole Kidman · 8 February 2007

  • Nicole Kidman by David Thomson

• The Eerie One: Peter Lorre · 23 March 2006

  • The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre by Stephen Youngkin

• Drop a tiger into a court-bouillon: Mesopotamian cookery · 6 October 2005

  • The Oldest Cuisine in the World: Cooking in Mesopotamia by Jean Bottéro, translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan

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