Elaine Lemm

I'm a born and bred Yorkshire lass, and I love to cook and have done it from a young age thanks to my mum and dad; she cooked it.

As a food writer for over 20 years, I am the author of 4 books and my first, The Great Book of Yorkshire Pudding now in its 10th year and still selling on Amazon. And I am pleased to say my latest, More Than Yorkshire Puddings, was voted the Best UK Regional Book 2023 in the Gourmand World’s Best Cookbooks. Hurrah!

Having written for many leading magazines, including Waitrose Food Illustrated, Olive, National Geographic Food and BBC Good Food. I also have an enviable job as a restaurant critic for the Yorkshire Post Saturday Magazine and am an expert product writer for BBC Good Food and JPI media. And for years, I worked for the New York Times Company, writing extensively online on British and Irish. The Spruce Eats, a high-ranking world-renowned lifestyle site and more recently for 9 years and more recently, I am working with Food52 as a contributing writer and recipe tester.