Laura Mason

Laura Mason is a highly respected food historian and writer. As well as drafting many entries for the original Oxford Companion to Food and specialist contributions to TV and broadcast, she spent the best part of three years living on various narrow boats on the Midlands canals (some of that time cooking for a living); working as a taster for Nestle; providing the visual references for ‘Honeyduke’s Sweetshop’ for the film version of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and demonstrating sugar boiling to cook and writer, Nigel Slater. She lives in Yorkshire with her husband.