Bread & Oysters is an online magazine featuring news, views and mus(ings) from the world of food, past, present and future. It is run by freelance food journalists Christopher Hirst, Carolyn Hart and Emma Hagestadt, find out more about them below...
Christopher Hirst
Carolyn Hart
Emma Hagestadt
Pancakes are delicious, quick, reliable food for which you always have the right ingredients in your cupboard says Sophie Hart-Walsh Nobody would ever turn down a pancake. Nobody would ever be disappointed by a pancake on their plate, apart from sometimes John Torode and Greg Wallace (and even then only if one of them has […]
The marshes of creeks of Savannah are home to sweet shrimp and blue clams. Laura Binder Hughes talks to Savannah Bock and Audrey Bromstad about their first cook book and the cuisine of their beloved Low Country… The romanticisation of The Old South plantation culture may be gone with the wind, but what lives on, […]
Despite its “feety savour”, the sandwich provided by James Joyce for his hero’s lunch in Ulysses is the most celebrated meal in literature. Christopher Hirst shares a bite with Mr Bloom… —Have you a cheese sandwich? —Yes, sir. Like a few olives too if they had them. Italian I prefer. Good glass of burgundy; take away […]
When she wasn’t penning novels, Jane Austen was was a prolific and entertaining letter writer. Sadly most of her correspondence was destroyed by her elder sister Cassandra, shortly before she died. This surviving example was written by 24-year-old Jane and describes a ball she attended the night before. ‘I believe I drank too much wine last night […]
The Food Writer's Cooperative is an online magazine featuring news, views and mus(ings) from the world of food, past, present and future. It is run by freelance food journalists Christopher Hirst, Carolyn Hart & Emma Hagestadt, find out more about them below...
Emma HagestadtEmma Hagestadt is a food journalist and book reviewer. A regular contributor to The Independent, she has also written for The Guardian and the food pages of The Saturday Telegraph magazine. She has previously worked for Gourmet magazine and Marie Claire
Carolyn HartCarolyn is a freelance food journalist. The former food editor of the Saturday Telegraph magazine and food editor of the Lady Magazine, she is now a contributing editor for the Telegraph Saturday magazine and has written for, amongst other publications, Conde Nast Traveller, Marie Claire magazine, The Mail, The Guardian and The Independent (where she was gardening and design editor). She has written two cookbooks, Cooks Books and Much Depends on Dinner and co-authors a food blog, What We Cooked Today. Blogspot.com, with her daughter Sophie.
Christopher HirstChristopher Hirst is a freelance food journalist. He was a columnist, feature writer and restaurant reviewer for The Independent, a columnist for Intelligent Life and also contributes pub reviews for the Daily Telegraph’s Pint to Pint column. In 2005, he won the Glenfiddich award for Food Writer and won the Fortnum & Mason award for Food Writer in 2013. His book Love Bites: Marital Skirmishes in the Kitchen was published in 2010.
