Laura Mason
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7 August 1957
Laura Mason | |
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| Born | Laura Mason 7 August 1957 Ilkley, Yorkshire, UK |
| Died | 2 February 2021 (aged 63) |
| Education | Ilkley Grammar School Bradford College of Art Leeds Polytechnic |
| Occupation | Food historian |
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Laura Mason (1957–2021) was a British food historian based in York.[1][2] She studied home economics and food technology and published several books on cookery and its history.
Mason was born in Ilkley on 7 August 1957 and attended Ilkley Grammar School. Her father was a farmer and her mother a local historian. She took a foundation course at Bradford College of Art and a degree in home economics and a further degree in food technology at Leeds Polytechnic.[1]
Career
In 1997 Mason co-authored The Taste of Britain with Catherine Brown, published by Harper-Collins with a foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.[3][4]
She published Sugar-Plums and Sherbert: a Prehistory of Sweets in 1998.[5] As Alan Davidson's research assistant she wrote many of the articles in The Oxford Companion to Food (1999).[1] She wrote several books for the National Trust: Farmhouse Cookery in 2005, and Book of Crumbles and Book of Afternoon Tea both in 2018,[2] and Roasts in 2019. Her other publications included Sweets and Candy (2019) and Pine, about pine trees, in 2013.
