Gillian Polack
Gillian is joyously addicted to food, history and writing. Her favourite recreational activity is to marvel over obscure spices and seek out strange recipes from long forgotten cookbooks. She spends the rest of her life writing, reading, teaching and pretending to think.
She truly is an historian, with a PhD in things mostly Medieval and occasional academic publications which she hides where no-one will see them.
Her other writing is less well hidden. She has been known to write book reviews (of fantasy novels, mainly), to pen critical pieces (about speculative fiction) and to write fiction. That fiction appears in print from time to time.
You can also find Gillian talking (about writing and teaching and life, rather than culinary history) at her other blog Even in a Little Thing, and on her website. Oh yes, and she teaches. There’s a vast amount of food and history and food history in her courses. In fact, when you look closely, you will find she is sadly obsessed and you really shouldn’t encourage her.
