S3 EP4. - Harriet Hastings - Biscuiteers & Women’s Prize Stuck for Ideas

Harriet Hastings created the iced biscuit company Biscuiteers with her husband Stevie in 2007. They have shops and icing cafes around London and work with many iconic brands to create bespoke biscuits for a global market. Their recent accolades include being awarded ‘Best Brand in Lockdown’ in the 2020 eCommerce awards. Alongside her entrepreneurial success, Harriet is also managing director of the Women’s Prize for fiction.
SHOW NOTES:
Biscuiteers, Luxury Hand-Iced Biscuits - https://www.biscuiteers.com
@biscuiteersltd

Lettice Events - https://www.letticeevents.com/

Anya Hindmarch Handbags
Emma Bridgewater and Sophie Conran

3D structures - Covent Garden Gingerbread
https://waddesdon.org.uk/whats-on/biscuiteers-manor-in-gingerbread/#:~:text=The%20celebrated%20hand-iced%20biscuit%20company%20Biscuiteers%2C%20have%20created,of%20icing%2C%20it%20took%20500%20hours%20to%20make%21

Women’s Prize for Fiction - https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/

www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/#podcast

Catherine Ryan at Latitude

Reading Women - https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/Reading-Women

Dolly Alderton at the Palladium

Books:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Inspirations:

Hamnet - by Maggie O’Farrell - women’s prize for fiction winner 2020

Life size MR Darcyhttps://www.michellesugarart.co.uk/

Cheese Christmas tree - https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/cheltenham-food-artist-created-seven-3653315

Jelly competition- https://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/22/architectural-jelly-competition-results/

Article 25 - https://www.article-25.org/. Editor extraordinaire @jackbaxter
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