Hattie Ellis' Planet Chicken won the Derek Cooper Award for investigative writing in 2008; her Sweetness & Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee covered the natural and social history of food; the research for Best of British Fish (Winner, Guild of Food Writers' Award) taught her about fishing and marine ecology, and Eating England took her into social history and farming. She has also worked for the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, exploring the connections between food and health. And she has written for a host of magazines and newspapers.