Vicky Hayward

Vicky Hayward grew up in England, where she learned to cook professionally before studying history at the University of Cambridge. She began her features journalism in 1986 after working as a senior editor at Weidenfeld and at Booth-Clibborn Editions, the publisher of cutting-edge visual books. Living in East London and Vanuatu, she interpreted and translated, while her writing covered popular culture, social issues, food, visual arts (hi and lo), and women's issues. In Madrid, Spain from 1990, she wrote mainly on food culture and flamenco, and consulted to live arts programmers and film-makers. She has written three pocket-books on regions and cities for Insight Guides, and essays for other publishers. To read more of her journalism please visit http://www.vickyhayward.es.

Since 2000 her writings on food, culture and history have converged. Shorter pieces include essays for the "Oxford Companion to Food" and in 2017 she published "New Art of Cookery, A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook" (https://newartofcookery.com), entitled in Spanish "Nuevo Arte de la Cocina Española" (https://nuevoartedelacocina.com), a contextualised retelling of Juan Altamiras's 18thC cookbook. It won the Jane Grigson Trust Award in 2017 and Spain's 2018 Premio Nacional de Gastronomia for best publication of the year.