Naomi Duguid (born 1950) is a Canadian food writer and photographer. Duguid is based in Toronto and has coauthored six cookbooks, and well as Burma: Rivers of Flavor in 2012 which was her first solo publication.[1] She is best known for her cookbooks co-written with her then-husband Jeffrey Alford.[2][3]
Duguid attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and proceeded through law school. After travelling around the world, Naomi met Jeffrey Alford in Tibet in 1985 and the two were soon married.[4]
She quit her job as a lawyer and went into writing cookbooks in 1995. She has jointly put out five books with her husband on world cooking. All five books have gone on to be major successes and have won Cookbook of the Year from the James Beard Foundation in 1996 and 2001 as well as Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award in 1999 and 2004.
She had won a total of 5 James Beard Foundation Awards including Best Food Photography in 2001.
Alford and Duguid have two sons together, and lived in Toronto, Canada until they separated in 2009. Naomi Duguid continues to live in Toronto, and Jeffrey Alford lived in Thailand until he passed in Jan 2024.
Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan (ISBN978-1579-6554-8-8, 2016)
The Miracle of Salt: Recipes and Techniques to Preserve, Ferment, and Transform Your Food (ISBN978-1579659448, 2022)
References
^Gross, Matt (2012). "Burma". Afar Magazine (October): 119.
^Smith, Andrew F. (2007). The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 154–155. ISBN978-0-19-530796-2.
^"Observer Book Report: Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid munch their way through the Mekong Delta and come back with a terrificly useful book". Restaurant Hospitality. 85 (9): 30–31. 2001.
