Food Matters for Food Lovers

Her latest book, In Good Taste: What Shapes What We Eat and Drink – And Why It Matters, explores food systems, sustainability and social impact, empowering readers to become active tastemakers. A features writer and presenter for Good Food, she also publishes the award-nominated newsletter In Good Taste, examining planet-friendly eating and the links between food, people and the planet. Mallika is the author of Indian cookbooks Miss Masala and Masala, and a regular speaker and chair at UK food events. She brings over 20 years’ experience in strategic communications, advising organisations including Jamie Oliver Group, Waitrose and Borough Market.

Her debut novel Hashim & Family was an Observer Best Book of 2020. Her work has appeared in various publications including Observer Food Monthly, Vittles, Good Food, Waitrose, and Borough Market. Shahnaz writes a monthly Substack newsletter, Scribbles & Dribbles, about juggling writing, cooking and motherhood. 

She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge, and currently works as a researcher at Cardiff University where her work uses food as a unique lens through which to view the daily lives, beliefs, and identities of ordinary people in the past. As @historyeats on Instagram, Eleanor posts daily food history facts, stories, and art to a large international following. She is a regular contributor to public-facing media, including TV, podcasts, and radio, and writes the monthly food history column for BBC History Magazine.

She has wide experience in magazine editorial, online food publishing, and recipe video, and worked as a food editor for Murdoch books in Sydney where she researched and worked on a series of internationally published food and travel books covering China, India, Thailand, Italy and France. She has also written for The Sydney Morning Herald, has taught a course on Food Writing at City University and then at Leith's School of Food and Wine and has published a number of cookbooks.