31 British food writers

Parveen Ashraf is a British food writer and TV chef of Indian cuisine.

Dame Mary Rosa Alleyne Hunnings, known professionally as Mary Berry, is a British food writer, chef and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she studied catering and shipping management at college. She then moved to France at the age of 21 to study at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs.

Ravinder Bhogal is an award-winning food writer, restaurateur, British chef, journalist and stylist. She founded her first restaurant Jikoni in Marylebone, London in September 2016.

Alan Eaton Davidson CMG was a British diplomat and writer best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy.

Henry Richard Melville Dimbleby is a British businessman and cookery writer who is a co-founder of Leon Restaurants and the Sustainable Restaurant Association. He was appointed lead non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in March 2018. He is the son of veteran BBC broadcaster David Dimbleby and Josceline Dimbleby.

Mark Flanagan is a British chef, known to be the personal chef of The Queen and head chef of the Royal Household.

Charles Walter Forward was a British animal rights activist and historian of vegetarianism.

Hayden Kain Groves is an English chef and amateur cyclist. He is the author of the Cure Leukaemia Charity cook book Back in the Saddle and won the title of National Chef of the Year in 2013.

Andy Hayler is an English data warehousing professional and food critic. He led the creation of the dynamic data warehousing architecture within Royal Dutch Shell that he later commercialized as the KALIDO Active Information Management software product of Kalido, the Shell subsidiary founded by Hayler in 2001. In 2002, Hayler was selected for the "Top 10 Innovators" list by the editors of Red Herring, the magazine of business technology innovation and entrepreneurism.

Anissa Helou is a London-based chef, teacher, and author. She specializes cooking and writing recipes for Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and North African Cuisines. Her cookbooks have won numerous awards. She currently lives in London and runs a cooking school, "Anissa's School."

James Alexander Hoffmann is an English businessman, author, barista and online influencer.

Jocasta Claire Traill Innes was a British writer, journalist and businesswoman.

Tom Jaine is a former restaurateur, a food writer and until recently the publisher of Prospect Books.

Annabel Jane Elizabeth Karmel, is the author of books on nutrition and cooking for babies, children and families.

Diana Kennedy is a British food writer. A primary English-language authority on Mexican cooking, Kennedy is known for her nine books on the subject, including The Cuisines of Mexico, which started changing how Americans view Mexican cooking. Her work is the basis of much of the work of Mexican chefs in the United States. Her cookbooks are distinctive because they are based on her fifty years of traveling Mexico, interviewing and learning from cooks of all kinds in the country, and from just about every region.

Brigadier-General Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert (1840–1916) was a British soldier who served in the British Indian Army, and wrote on cooking.

James Knight-Pacheco is a television personality who has appeared in cooking shows on the BBC. Knight-Pacheco and Alasdair Hooper were the runners-up in Raymond Blanc's BBC Two programme The Restaurant. Blanc offered them both a job at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons. In 2010, Knight-Pacheco and Hooper hosted a BBC Two series on event catering Out of the Frying Pan.

Professor Richard Westgarth Lacey was a British microbiologist and writer, known for arguing that Bovine spongiform encephalopathy "mad cow disease" can be passed to humans.

Prudence Margaret Leith, is a British-South African restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist. She is Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She was a judge on BBC Two's Great British Menu for eleven years, before joining The Great British Bake Off in March 2017, replacing Mary Berry, when the television programme moved to Channel 4.

Elisabeth Luard née Longmore is a food writer, artist and broadcaster. She is the chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

Guy Richard Godfrey Mackarness was a British physician and low-carbohydrate diet writer. He is best known for his book Eat Fat and Grow Slim, published in 1958. Mackarness was an early advocate of the Paleolithic diet and authored books on food allergies.

Agnes Catherine Maitland (1850–1906) was the principal of Somerville College, Oxford, England. She contributed much to gaining it full college status within the University of Oxford and to expanding its library. She also wrote books about cookery.

Ismail Merchant was an Indian film producer and director. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards.

Jack Monroe is a British food writer, journalist and activist known for campaigning on poverty issues, particularly hunger relief. Monroe initially rose to prominence for writing a blog titled A Girl Called Jack, and has since written for publications such as The Echo, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and The New Yorker, as well as publishing several cookbooks focusing on "austerity recipes" and meals which can be made on a tight budget.

John Frank Newton (1767-1837) was a British vegetarianism activist and Zoroastrian.

Thomas Henry Charles Parker Bowles is a British food writer and food critic. Parker Bowles is the author of seven cookbooks and in 2010 won the Guild of Food Writers 2010 award for his writings on British food. He is known for his appearances as a judge in numerous television food series and for his reviews of restaurant meals around the UK and overseas for GQ, Esquire, and The Mail on Sunday.

Rajeev "Raj" Patel is a British Indian American academic, journalist, activist and writer who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the United States for extended periods. He has been referred to as "the rock star of social justice writing."

Gordon James Ramsay is a British chef, restaurateur, writer, and television personality. He was born in Johnstone, Scotland, and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total and currently hold a total of seven. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held three Michelin stars since 2001. After rising to fame on the British television miniseries Boiling Point in 1998, Ramsay had become one of the best-known and most influential chefs in the UK by 2004.

Michel Albert Roux, known as Michel Roux Jr., is an English two-star Michelin chef at the London restaurant Le Gavroche.

Edgar J. Saxon (1877-1956) was a British environmentalist, naturopath and alternative health writer. He was a pioneer of the organic movement.

Sami Zubaida is an Emeritus Professor of Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck, University of London and, as a Visiting Hauser Global Professor of Law in Spring 2006, taught Law and Politics in the Islamic World at New York University School of Law. He is a regular participant at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and organized a conference at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, in 1992, which focused on the culinary cultures of the Middle East. The conference papers were published in book form in 1994.