Elly McCausland is the award winning author of The Botanical Kitchen (Bloomsbury). She won Online Food Writer of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards. She was also shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Writing Awards. The Botanical Kitchen won the Jane Grigson Trust award in 2019. During her teaching of her seminar "English Literature, Taylor’s Version," she has also established links with a global network of media contacts and won many influential fans. She is an associate professor of English at Ghent University in Belgium.

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