Fiona Beckett

Fiona Beckett (born 1948) is a Bristol-based writer and food journalist who regularly writes for The Guardian, Decanter, and other UK news publications.^[1][2] She has also written for The Times, the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, and National Geographic Food. She is a regular judge for competitions such as the BBC Food and Farming Awards,^[3] the Andre Simon Awards, and the Fortnum & Mason Awards.^[4]

Beckett has written 23 books about food and wine, including How to Match Food and Wine, Cooking with Wine, and Wine by Style.^[5] She has been a contributing editor at Decanter since 1998 and was a wine columnist for The Guardian from 2010 to 2024.^[2]

Beckett has four children, including Will Beckett, co-founder of the Hawksmoor restaurant chain.^[6][7] She has a BA in Philosophy & Politics from the University of Exeter.

Selected works

• Eating and Drinking: an A-Z of Great Food & Drink Combinations (2000)^[8]
• How to Match Food and Wine (2002)^[9]
• Beyond Baked Beans, Absolute Press (2003)
• Beyond Baked Beans Green, Absolute Press (2004)^[10]
• Sausage and Mash, Absolute Press (2004)^[11]
• Cooking with Wine (2005)^[12]
• Beyond Baked Beans Budget, Absolute Press (2006)^[13]
• Meat and Two Veg, Absolute Press (2006)^[14]
• An Appetite for Ale, CAMRA Books (2007)^[15]
• The Frugal Cook (2008)
• Fiona Beckett's Cheese Course, Ryland Peters & Small Ltd (2009)^[16]
• The Ultimate Student Cookbook, Absolute Press (2009)^[17]
• The Frugal Cook, Absolute Press (2011)^[18]
• The Healthy Lunchbox, Grub Street (2014)^[19]
• Winelover's Kitchen: Delicious Recipes for Cooking with Wine, Ryland Peters & Small Ltd (2017)^[20]
• How to Drink without Drinking, Kyle (2019)

Awards

• Food Journalist of the Year Award (2002), The Guild of Food Writers, for work in The Times, Decanter, Sainsbury's The Magazine^[21]
• Blogger of the Year (2014), International Wine and Spirit Competition^[22]
• Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year (Shortlisted, 2019) for How to Drink without Drinking^[23]