Background
Blythman was born in Springburn in Glasgow, the daughter of socialist campaigner and Scottish republican songwriter Morris Blythman.
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Joanna Blythman
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City University London.
Career
In 2007 she was awarded the Good Housekeeping award for Outstanding Contribution to Food. She has also written two other books, How to Avoid General Motors Food and The Food Our Children Eat. She broadcasts frequently on food issues (Tonight, British Broadcasting Corporation Breakfast, GMTV, The Money Programme, Dispatches, Time Shift and on Radio 4 The Food Programme and Woman"s Hour).
She writes a weekly restaurant review and an opinion column for The Sunday Herald, and has contributed to a number of other newspapers and magazines, including Observer Food Monthly, Daily Mail, The Guardian, British Broadcasting Corporation Countryfile magazine, Olive magazine, The Oldie and The Grocer.
Her most recent books are What To Eat (2012) and Swallow This (2015).
Achievements
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As of 2006, she has won five Glenfiddich Awards for her writing, including a Glenfiddich Special Award for her first book, The Food We Eat, and the Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year Award in 2005 for Shopped, as well as a Caroline Walker Media Award for Improving the Nation"s Health by Means of Good Food, and a Guild of Food Writers Award for The Food We Eat. In 2004, she won the Derek Cooper Award, one of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Food and Farming Awards.
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