Helen Graves

Helen Graves is an award-winning food and recipe writer and editor. She has a particular interest in live-fire cooking and is the author of Live Fire: Seasonal barbecue recipes and stories of live fire traditions, old and new. She is also editor of Pit, an independent magazine with roots in food and fire, which has been lauded by Nigella Lawson, and national newspaper critics Jay Rayner, Marina O'Loughlin and Tom Parker-Bowles. She won Editor of the Year: Food at Drink at the 2020 British Society of Magazine Editors Awards.

She has bylines in many major food publications and her recipes have reached a huge online audience through her website helengraves.co.uk - Helen is on Twitter and Instagram @FoodStories. She lives in South London with 5 barbecues and 2 cats.