What we eat has never seemed as crucial – or complicated. Tim Spector is in the top 1% most-cited scientists on the planet; in Food For Life he draws on cutting-edge research to deliver a comprehensive guide to what we should all know about our greatest ally for good health. Broadcaster Dan Saladino won the Wainwright Prize 2022 and the Guild of Food Writers Book Award for his astonishing Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods & Why We Need To Save Them. Two experts discuss the past, present and future of food, in conversation with award-winning food writer Felicity Cloake.

Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. He is a multi-award-winning expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome, and the author of five books, including the bestsellers Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth. He appears regularly on TV, radio and podcasts around the world, and is one of the top 100 most cited scientists in the world. He is co-founder of the personalised nutrition company ZOE and leads the world’s biggest citizen science health project, the ZOE Health study. He was awarded an OBE in 2020 for his work fighting Covid-19.

Dan Saladino is a journalist and broadcaster. He makes programmes about food for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service.

His work has been recognised by the Guild of Food Writers Awards, the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards, and in America by the James Beard Foundation. Eating to Extinction was awarded the 2019 Jane Grigson Trust Award. He lives in Cheltenham but his roots are Sicilian.

Felicity Cloake is the award-winning author of the Guardian’s long-running How to Make the Perfect column as well as six books, including four cookbooks and the foodie travelogue, One More Croissant for the Road, a BBC Radio Four Book of the Week which was shortlisted for the Fortnum and Mason food book of the year award. Her most recent book, Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey came out in June 2022, published by Mudlark. She loves kippers, is ambivalent about baked beans, and prefers her bacon sandwiches with marmalade and mustard.