Clare Finney
Clare Finney is a British food writer and author. In 2019, she won the Fortnum & Mason’s best food writer award and in 2022 the award for the best debut food book for The Female Chef. Her new book is Hungry Heart: A Story of Food and Love.
Books by Clare Finney
The Female Chef: 30 Women Redefining the British Food Scene
by Clare Finney & Liz Seabrook
***Winner of the 2022 Fortnum & Mason Award for Best Debut Food Book***
Hungry Heart: A Story of Food and Love
by Clare Finney
It’s about food and love in all its many forms. It’s not just romantic love, it’s familial love, it’s friendship, it’s your colleagues, it’s yourself. It’s school food and funeral food. It’s the food you have after breakups and the way in which divorce shapes how you eat. It’s all the food and all the love I’ve experienced in my relatively short life.
So it’s my story, but with other people’s stories woven in. I’m providing a narrative thread and then there are interviews with Diana Henry and Bee Wilson, with Olia Hercules and her husband, with friends of mine, with Lauren Bravo—an amazing fashion writer—with a kitchen designer, a psychologist and with a food historian.
The Best Food Books: The 2023 Fortnum & Mason Food And Drink Awards recommended by Clare Finney
Interviews with Clare Finney
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Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey
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The Joy of Snacks: A Celebration of One of Life's Greatest Pleasures, with Recipes
by Laura Goodman -
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A Portrait of British Cheese: A Celebration of Artistry, Regionality and Recipes
by Angus Birditt -
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Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives
by Al Tait & Kitty Tait -
5
Takeaway: Stories From a Childhood Behind the Counter
by Angela Hui
The Best Food Books: The 2023 Fortnum & Mason Food And Drink Awards, recommended by Clare Finney
The Best Food Books: The 2023 Fortnum & Mason Food And Drink Awards, recommended by Clare Finney
Every year, the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards celebrate the best books across a range of food, cookery and drink categories. Here British food writer Clare Finney, one of the judges for this year’s awards, talks us through the fabulous books that made the 2023 shortlists—and shows how they are about much more than just delicious food.
