Emma Kay

Emma is a Fellow of The Royal Historical Society, Post-graduate Historian and Archaeologist, former senior museum professional & Award-Winning author of 15 food history books. She has appeared numerous times as a food history expert on documentaries and mainstream popular programmes for Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC1 and KBS-TV, Korea.

She has lectured, delivered demonstrations and interactive talks online and across a variety of venues both nationally and internationally for The Guild of Food Writers, Bath Literature Festival, Stroud Literature Festival, 1 Royal Crescent Bath, Wakefield Rhubarb Festival, The Women’s Institute, Tastemade, BBNY Group LLC, New York and been a regular interviewee on podcasts including English Heritage, Table Talk with Stefan Gates and Eat Your Heartland Out with former senator Capri Cafaro.

Emma has regularly featured as a food history expert & author on BBC radio and Talk Radio Europe and written articles for English Heritage, BBC Food, Lancashire Life, BBC History Magazine, Daily Express, Daily Mail, Times Literary Supplement, Victorian Review, Lancashire Post and Love Food among others.

Media Quotes

‘If you want to learn more about the chefs from our past whose names are bandied around by the likes of Heston Blumenthal then Cooking Up History is a great place to start’. (Comfortably Hungry, on Cooking up History: Chefs of the Past).

‘Kay’s book is an unmissable feast of nostalgia’. (The Daily Mail on Vintage Kitchenalia).

‘A fascinating look at History’s most celebrated, or in some cases, notorious chef’s’. (Taster Magazine on Cooking up History: Chefs of the Past).

‘..tells the story of Georgian food largely through utensils and inventions, in a book which is teeming with well-chosen details…’ (Times Literary Supplement on Dining with the Georgians/The Georgian Kitchen).

‘She unearthed many curious and fascinating facts’. (Worcester News on More Than a Sauce: Worcestershire’s Culinary History).