About Diana Henry
Diana Henry is an award-winning food writer, journalist and broadcaster. She is the author of ten books including ‘A Bird in the Hand’ – a Top 10 Bestseller that won a prestigious James Beard Award in March 2016. ‘SIMPLE: effortless food, big flavours’ is her tenth.
Diana is the Sunday Telegraph’s food writer and has a column in Stella, the newspaper’s magazine. She also writes a monthly column in BBC Good Food Magazine. She was named Cookery Writer of the Year in the prestigious Fortnum & Mason Food & Drink Awards in 2013 and 2015.
Diana was brought up in Northern Ireland in a family of keen cooks. At six she was making peppermint creams, coconut ice and fairy cakes. By sixteen, she was hosting her first dinner party. At eighteen, she left Northern Ireland to study English Literature at Oxford University.
It was on moving to London after university that Diana found her culinary stride and more like-minded peers. And many years and a Leith’s cookery course later, Diana turned to food writing as a career, and she’s never looked back.