Dr. Beatrice Dorothy "Bee" Wilson is a writer, journalist and author whose work links food with wider themes of health, psychology and history. She also writes the "Table Talk" column for The Wall Street Journal.Wilson began her career as a research fellow at Cambridge University. She then became a journalist, reporting on food and other topics, such as film, biography, music and history. In 1998 she became the weekly food critic for the New Statesman. She then went on to write the "Kitchen Thinker" column in The Sunday Telegraph's "Stella" magazine for twelve years. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, the London Review of Books. Her first book, "The Hive: the Story of the Honeybee and Us," was published in 2005. Wilson received her B.A. in History from Cambridge University, her M.A. in Political Science the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. from Cambridge University.