Awards
- Shortlisted alongside Ravinder Bhogal and Fliss Freeborn for ‘Best Cookery Writer’, Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2023
- Crave named ‘Cookbook of the Year’, Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022
- Crave shortlisted for ‘Best Cookbook’, at The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2022
- Shortlisted alongside Rosie Birkett and Rachel Roddy for ‘Best Recipe Writer’, The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2021
- Shortlisted alongside Nicola Miller and Aaron Vallance for ‘Best Online Food Writer’, The Guild of Food Awards 2020
- Shortlisted alongside Grace Dent and Bee Wilson for ‘Best Food Writer’, The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2019
- Shortlisted alongside Diana Henry and Olivia Potts for ‘Best Cookery Writer’, Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2019
- On the Side shortlisted for ‘Best First Food Book’ The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2018
- Shortlisted for ‘Best Blog’, The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2018
- Shortlisted for ‘Best Blog’, The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2016
- Judge of Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2016
- On the Side shortlisted for the inaugural Jane Grigson Trust Award for first time authors.
- Winner ‘Best Online Restaurant Writer’, Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2015
- Shortlisted alongside Diana Henry and Yotam Ottolenghi for ‘Best Cookery Writer’, Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2015
- Shortlisted ‘Best Online Restaurant Writer’, Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2014
- Finalist Pink Lady Food Photographer of The Year Awards 2014
- Shortlisted ‘Best Online Food Writer’, Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2013
- 2nd prize in the vegetable animal category (adult’s) at the 2011 and 2016 Great Comberton Flower Show. I was robbed in 2013, but achieved 1st in the children’s competition a few times in my youth
Shout outs include
- Best new cookbooks 2019 (The Borough Market Cookbook), iPaper, April 2019
- Spring recipe spread, The Saturday Telegraph March 2019
- Best chef cookbooks for Christmas (The Borough Market Cookbook), Hot Dinners, November 2018
- Autumn dish spread, The Saturday Telegraph October 2018
- Autumnal recipe spread, The Guardian Cook, October 2018
- The Borough Market Cookbook – intro and extract, The Sunday Times, October 2018
- A Tour of Borough Market with Ed Smith, Waterstones Video, October 2018
- Eater London, July 2018
- Anna Jones’ Christmas ‘best cookbooks list’, December 2017
- Diana Henry’ Christmas ‘best cookbooks list’, December 2017
- Stephen Harris’ Christmas ‘best cookbooks list’, December 2017
- On the Side mentioned in dispatches on Radio 4’s The Food Programme best cookbook roundup
- Guardian Christmas food book roundup December 2017
- Evening Standard best cookbooks 2017
- The Independent May 2017
- Guardian Cook, May 2017
- Evening Standard Cookbook Challenge, May 2017
- Guardian Cook Kitchen Encounters, September 2016
- BBC Good Food top food instagrammers 2016
- Guardian Cook, The Grazer recommends, 19 February 2015
- Olive Magazine, Blog of the Month, June 2014
- Britain’s Best Food Bloggers, The Sunday Times, 21 July 2013
- Sainsbury’s Magazine Recommended Food Blogs 2011
- The Irish Times
- Kind Words from Fiona Beckett’s Matching Food and Wine
- Fay Maschler
- Food Stories
- Hollow Legs
- RachelKhoo.com
- JamesRamsden.com
- London Resident – best food and drink bloggers
- 1000 Cookbooks
- The Good Web Guide
- Bookatable ‘top bloggers’
- Creative Tourist
There’s more, but this can’t be that interesting?