Bee Wilson is a historian and journalist. She writes an weekly food column for the Sunday Telegraph, 'The Kitchen Thinker', for which she received the Guild of Food Writers' Food Journalist of the Year award in 2004, 2008 and 2009, and is the author of The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us (2004) and Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee, the Dark History of the Food Cheats (2008).