Carolyn Steel is an architect, writer and lecturer, born and bred in central London. As an architect, she has always been interested in how buildings are inhabited, feeling that in order to study architecture, you have to look away from it. In the 1990s she studied everyday habits of a local neighbourhood in Rome. She came up with the idea to describe cities through food to understand them better, which led her to writing “Hungry City”. In this renowned book, she traces the journey of food from land to the dinner table. She has run design studios at the London School of Economics, London Metropolitan University, and at Cambridge University, where her course ‘Food and the City’ is an established part of the degree programme.