Clarissa Hyman is an award-winning, freelance writer , consultant and lecturer, specialising in food and travel: food with travel, travel with food, food without travel, but never travel without food. Her ambition, partially fulfilled, is to find other people to pay for her to eat her way around the world. She is the current Vice-President of the UK Guild of Food Writers, and also a member of the IACP.
Clarissa writes for a wide range of newspapers, magazines and guides, and has published three books on food, cookery and culture: The Spanish Kitchen (2005), Cucina Siciliana (2002) and The Jewish Kitchen (2003). She also contributed to "How the British Fell in Love with Food" (2010), and wrote a highly acclaimed column in Country Living magazine about British food.
She is based in the United Kingdom.
"For me, food is a way in which to understand different peoples and societies: why they eat, what they eat, how they eat, when they eat all builds a picture of a certain society at a certain point in time. That is why I find writing about food eternally fascinating, never boring, always revelatory. You take a slice of bread, for example, and can end up learning about religious practices, agriculture, economics, technology, natural and social history. And that's before you even begin to butter it!"
My interest in food is broad-based, taking in producers, ingredients, restaurants, recipes, history, culture, food policy, consumer trends and much more. With a background in television production, I can also bring a multi-media approach to my work and writing.
Hawaii (2009)
Croatia (2009)
Paul Bocuse (2009)
The Gentle Art of Recipe Writing (2009)
Orkney (2009)
Tel Aviv
Vienna
Rome
Great British Puddings
