Felicity Cloake

Felicity Cloake (born ) is an English food and travel writer. Her books include The A-Z of Eating: A Flavour Map for the Adventurous Cook, Completely Perfect (2018), One More Croissant for the Road (2019), and Red Sauce, Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey (2022). She writes for The Guardian and the New Statesman.

Early life Cloake grew up in Hertfordshire; her father was a John Lewis executive and her mother taught French. She has Irish heritage on her maternal side. Cloake attended Rugby School before studying English at St Peter's College, Oxford. She began her writing career in the Oxford Student. She sparked a minor controversy in 2022 when she recommended garnishing bacon butties with marmalade rather than the traditional condiments of brown sauce or ketchup.

She has published a series of cookbooks based on her Guardian column, including Perfect, Perfect Too, Perfect Host, and Completely Perfect. In 2019 she published her first travelogue, One More Croissant for the Road, describing her 3,500 km bicycle journey around France in search of the perfect croissant. In 2022 she published a sort of sequel, Red Sauce, Brown Sauce, in which she cycles around Great Britain sampling breakfast foods. In October 2020, Cloake hosted an online livestream event in conversation with food writer Grace Dent for The Guardian.

Books

Awards

New Media of the Year Award, Guild of Food Writers, 2011 Food Journalist of the Year Award, Guild of Food Writers, 2011