Fiona Beckett
is an award-winning food and drink writer, one of the UK’s leading experts on food and drink matching, wine columnist for The Guardian and the author of 22 books on food and wine.

* has been a regular contributor to many other national newspapers with weekly columns for The Times and the Daily Mail. In 2002 she was voted Food Journalist of the Year by the British Guild of Food Writers and was a runner-up in the Best Drink Writer category in the 2007 Glenfiddich awards.

* has written for the UK’s leading food, drink and lifestyle magazines  including BBC Good Food, Country Living, Delicious, Good Housekeeping, Sainsbury's Magazine and Waitrose Food Illustrated and for international food titles such as Bon Appetit and Australian Gourmet Traveller. She is currently a contributing editor to the wine magazine Decanter and to the artisanal magazine Fork.

* has written 22 food and drink books including Fiona Beckett's Cheese Course (2009) Food, Wine & Friends (2007) Cooking with Wine (2005), How to Match Food and Wine (2002) and Eating and Drinking: an A-Z of Great Food & Drink Combinations (2000) (see My Books)

* blogs at Credit Crunch Drinking, Wine Naturally and The Cheeselover

For more information and full contact details visit her professional website the2fionas.com