Hattie Ellis


Hattie Ellis is a British food writer and journalist.
Ellis trained as a journalist with Westminster Press and as a cook at Leith's Cookery School. She was a reporter on the Bath Evening Chronicle, a researcher for the BBC's Food and Drink programme, an associate producer for Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's A Cook on the Wild Side, Escape to River Cottage and TV Dinners and also worked on Dorinda Hafner's Tastes of Britain. She has appeared on Breakfast Time, Woman's Hour and The Food Programme.

Books

  • Spoonfuls of Honey: A Complete Guide to Honey's Flavours & Culinary Uses Pub. Pavilion Books
  • Spoonfuls of Honey: Recipes from around the world Pub. Pavilion
  • What to Eat?: 10 Chewy Questions About Food Pub. Granta Books
  • Planet Chicken: The Shameful Story of the Bird on your Plate Pub. Holder and Stoughton
  • Sweetness & Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee Pub. Crown
  • Best of British Fish with Camilla Sacchi
  • A Passion for Tea Pub. Ryland Peters and Small
  • A Passion for Coffee Pub. Ryland Peters and Small
  • Eating England: Why We Eat What We Eat Pub. Mitchell Beasley
  • Trading Places: Europe's Finest Specialist Shops Pub. Mitchell Beasley
  • Mood Food: Strategies for contemporary cooking and entertaining Pub. Headline
  • Tea: Discovering, Exploring, Enjoying Pub. Ryland Peters and Small
  • The one pot cook : 150 recipes for feeding family & friends Pub. Head of Zeus

    Other writing

  • Kew's Teas, Tonics and Tipples: Inspiring Botanical Drinks to Excite Your Tastebuds Pub. Royal Botanic Gardens - contributor
  • Weill, Valerie London in Store Pub. Thames and Hudson - preface
  • Samuelson, M. K. Sussex Recipe Book: With a Few Excursions into Kent Pub. Southover Press - introduction
Ellis has also written for the BBC, The Independent on Sunday and The Times.

Awards and nominations

  • 2001 Eating England won Special Award of the Jury, Gourmand World Cookbooks Award
  • 2006 Best of British Fish - won Guild of Food Writer's Award for 'Work on British Food'
  • 2013 What to Eat? - won Food Book of the Year
  • 2013 Spoonfuls of Honey - shortlisted for the Andre Simon food writing awards