Laura Mason
Laura Mason | |
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| Born | Laura Mason 7 August 1957 Ilkley, Yorkshire, UK |
| Died | 2 February 2021 (aged 63) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Ilkley Grammar School Bradford College of Art Leeds Polytechnic |
| Occupation | Food historian |
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Laura Mason (1957–2021) was a British food historian based in York.[1][2] She studied home economics and food technology and published several books on cookery and its history.
Early life and education
[edit]Mason was born in Ilkley on 7 August 1957 and attended Ilkley Grammar School. Her father was a farmer and her mother a local historian. She took a foundation course at Bradford College of Art and a degree in home economics and a further degree in food technology at Leeds Polytechnic.[1]
Career
[edit]In 1997 Mason co-authored The Taste of Britain with Catherine Brown, published by Harper-Collins with a foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.[3][4]
She published Sugar-Plums and Sherbert: a Prehistory of Sweets in 1998.[5] As Alan Davidson's research assistant she wrote many of the articles in The Oxford Companion to Food (1999).[1] She wrote several books for the National Trust: Farmhouse Cookery in 2005, and Book of Crumbles and Book of Afternoon Tea both in 2018,[2] and Roasts in 2019. Her other publications included Sweets and Candy (2019) and Pine, about pine trees, in 2013.
Personal life
[edit]Mason lived in York after moving there in 1976. She married Ian Tomlin, who died in 1982, and in 2012 married Derek Johnson. She died of cancer on 2 February 2021.[1][2]
Selected publications
[edit]- Mason, Laura; Brown, Catherine (2006). The Taste of Britain. London: Harper Press. ISBN 9780007241323.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Jaine, Tom (10 March 2021). "Laura Mason obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ a b c Gordon, Maxine. "Obituary: Laura Mason, 63, York food historian and writer". York Press. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "Made in Britain: The histories behind our food". The Independent. 2 October 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ "The Taste of Britain". Slow Food International. 5 November 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
- ^ Turner, E. S. (29 October 1998). "Suck, chéri". London Review of Books. 20 (21). ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
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