She's written for The Times, the Guardian, the BBC and a variety of national magazines and websites. She's always had difficulty resisting the contents of specialist food shops, her pantry and her fridge – well, anyone's fridge. She's interested in all things edible, and is partial to a bit of weird, which explains why she's tried eating whale's vomit (tastes better than it sounds). Breakfast always tastes better, in her opinion, if it involves bacon and lashings of butter. She is regularly urged by friends to ‘watch her cholesterol’, but definitely prefers watching bacon frying in a pan, and then eating it. Helenka is the founder and editor of www.ilovemygrub.com