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Colin Spencer is an author, journalist, broadcaster, playwright and lecturer, and is considered one of the finest food writers in the country. He was first published over fifty years ago in The London Magazine, and he wrote a food column for The Guardian for thirteen years. He is the author of eighteen books on food and cookery, including The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism (1995), the re-titled Vegetarianism: A History (2001), British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History (2003), Colin Spencer's Vegetable Book (2007), and The Faber Book of Food (1997), co-written with Claire Clifton. He has had seven plays produced and nine novels published, including Anarchists in Love (1963), Poppy Mandragora and the New Sex (1966), and the novel sequence called Generation, and is also the author of the poignant memoir Which of Us Two? The Story of a Love Affair (1990).
He has received many awards for his food writing, including the Guild of Food Writers Michael Smith Award, the André Simon Memorial Fund Special Award, the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the Best Culinary History Book in the World, and he has also been short-listed for the Glenfiddich Food and Drink Award for the Best Food Book of the Year. He is currently working on a new book called Hand to Mouth: the Evolution of Cooking in Britain to be published by Grub Street.
Recent books:
Colin Spencer's Vegetable Book (Conran Octopus: 2007)
British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History (Grub Street: 2003)
Vegetarianism: A History (Grub Street: 2001)
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