Laura Mason
Born
Laura Mason

7 August 1957
Ilkley, U.K.
Died2 February 2021(2021-02-02) (aged 63)
NationalityBritish
EducationIlkley Grammar School
Bradford College of Art
Leeds Polytechnic
OccupationFood historian
Spouses
  • Ian Tomlin
  • Derek Johnson

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.

Early life and education

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.

Personal life

Mason lived in York after moving there in 1976. She married Ian Tomlin, who died in 1982, and in 2012 married Derek Johnson. She died of cancer on 2 February 2021.[1][2]

Selected publications

  • Mason, Laura; Brown, Catherine (2006). The Taste of Britain. London: Harper Press. ISBN 9780007241323.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Jaine, Tom (10 March 2021). "Laura Mason obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 Gordon, Maxine. "Obituary: Laura Mason, 63, York food historian and writer". York Press. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  3. ↑ "Made in Britain: The histories behind our food". The Independent. 2 October 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "The Taste of Britain". Slow Food International. 5 November 2006. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
  5. ↑ Turner, E. S. (29 October 1998). "Suck, chéri". London Review of Books. 20 (21). ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 1 December 2021.


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