BEE WILSON
"The key to my becoming a food writer was my mother's small but well-chosen shelf of recipe books," says Bee Wilson, whose essay on the evolution of the kitchen begins on page 126. "As a child I devoured cookbooks the way other kids read comics, and I dreamed about the feasts I would make when I had my own kitchen." Wilson, who lives in Cambridge, England, is the author of four books, including, most recently, Consider the Fork (2012), a look at the way our kitchen tools have shaped our eating habits. Still, she learned one or two things writing for our pages. "I knew high-end knives were now very expensive," she says, "but I hadn't fully taken on board that it was possible to spend $2,000 on…
