Tessa Dunthorne is a features writer and food and drink editor at Country & Town House. A former health and medical PR, she is adept at cutting through brand claims and marketing noise, particularly where sustainability, wellness and consumption intersect. Over the past four years she has written across food, drink, interiors, hospitality and the arts, with recent features examining the rise of fractionalised collectibles, climate change’s impact on coffee farming and the celebrities reshaping Britain’s pub culture. In 2025, she was named Young Features Journalist of the Year and Young Environment Reporter of the Year by the Chartered Institute of Journalists. An alumna of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, she holds a History degree from the University of Exeter and is particularly interested in how environmental reality interacts with the modern luxury industry.
