Jacqui – Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Bitten is run by Jacqui Thorndyke, an East Oxford-based food blogger and freelance Digital Media Manager with a love of noodles, dumplings, avocado and sharks.

Mum of boys and capable of taking hundreds of food photographs within a single meal, Jacqui ran her first blog, FoodieOnTour, before launching Bitten Oxford in 2013, and Bitten Digital in 2018.

You can follow Jacqui on Twitter and Instagram.

Hannah – Deputy Editor

Hannah Bond now has a job in publishing, but in a former life, she trained as a chef and worked as a food blogger and cookery teacher.

Along the way, Hannah has baked wedding cakes, made pizzas in a wood-fired oven in a travelling van, done shifts in Michelin-starred restaurants, frosted many thousands of cupcakes for corporate events, and had one very stressful morning as a runner on Saturday Kitchen.

Chloe – Food Writer, West Oxfordshire

Chloe Horner retrained as a cook at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London, going on to start an underground supper club in her house called Oxfork.

Oxfork quickly transitioned into a cafe on Magdalen Road in East Oxford. The cafe was sold in 2014, and since then Chloe has had stints cooking at The Magdalen Arms, Natural Bread Company, Silvie, Burford Garden Company, The Potting Shed and The Straw Kitchen. She also cooks for a number of private clients including Annie Sloan and Riverford Organic.

Lucy – Food Writer, Oxford

Lucy Ayrton is a writer and keen amateur cook living in Oxford. She has reviewed for Daily Info and Sabotage Reviews for ten years and had her work featured in The Observer. Lucy also writes performance poetry shows and novels. She teaches writing at the London College of Creative Media.

Katy – Food & Travel Writer

Katy Kelly is a UK hotel-lover based in Oxford. She has a penchant for independent boutique hotels, hotel robes and room service. When she’s not checking in somewhere instagrammable at the weekend – you can find her photographing her brunch and writing about the best food and drink Oxford and the British countryside has to offer. You can read about her hotel addiction at www.thebestvanilla.co.uk

James – Beer Writer

James Henton discovered, more quickly than is friends, that just drinking Fosters is not cool. His beer drinking revaluation started with a craft classic, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, and since then has strived to find more and more interesting beers from rosehip saisions to Barrel Aged Stouts.

Holly & Rachel – Food Writers, West Oxfordshire

Couple, Rachel and Holly, live in Witney with their dog Ralphie and spend the majority of their time drinking coffee and exploring the best foodie spots in West Oxfordshire and the Cotswolds. 

Liz Wilding – Food Writer, Oxford & Oxfordshire

Liz Wilding navigates life as a continuous adventure in cooking and dining. Now Oxford-based following years of international travel, she jumps at the chance to try new foods and write about these experiences. She also obsesses about really good bread.

Georgia Sparks – Food Writer, Oxford

Georgia Sparks is a huge foodie. In her spare time, she loves to do anything revolving around food be it cook, eat or write about it. She has an Instagram @whatgeorgiacooks where she posts her creations.

Jade Heatley – Food Writer, Bicester

Jade Heatley is a full-time marketing assistant and part-time aspiring food writer & cocktail lover. Not one to be fussy when it comes to food, she has explored everything from Thai street markets to Michelin dining. When she is not persuading loved ones to go out for dinner she can be found in the kitchen; usually cooking 5 times too much and insisting everyone have seconds