The Great British Bake Off, the most charming and lovely piece of English pop culture since Paddington Bear, had been airing stateside on PBS as The Great British Baking Show, albeit several seasons behind. But since moving from commercial-free BBC to commercial network Channel 4 in 2017, and losing beloved judge Mary…

I was lucky enough to interview Martha Collison recently, a season-one contestant from The Great British Baking Show (Technically series five on the BBC version). It was a good excuse to dive down that lovely bake-filled wormhole again, as four full seasons are available on Netflix, and season five is currently…

Martha Collison was a breakout star in season one of the Great British Baking Show (that’s the American PBS broadcast of the BBC’s Great British Bake Off, of which Collison appeared on the fifth series). Even among a sea of polite contestants, the then-17-year-old—the youngest-ever GBBS contestant—was among the most…

Welcome back to Mailbag, a series about the sometimes weird, sometimes fun stuff we get in the mail. Today, deputy managing editor Caitlin PenzeyMoog received the first cookbook from Great British Bake Off wunderkind Martha Collison. Collison was the youngest contestant ever on the show, at just 17. Her first…