Jeffrey Alford

Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid won their first James Beard Award with Flatbreads & Flavours in 1996. Seductions of Rice won the Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award in 1998. And in 2000 they won the James Beard Award again with their third book, Hot Sour Salty Sweet. Their work appears frequently in magazines in Canada and the US, including Gourmet, Bon Appétit and Food & Wine. They live in Toronto with their two sons.

Books by Jeffrey Alford

• Published by Random House of Canada

  Beyond the Great Wall

  Recipes and Travels in the Other China

  A bold and eye-opening new book of magnificent photos, unforgettable stories and exotic home-cooking from the most ethnically diverse, geographically varied and intriguing regions of China.
  
  In the West, when we think about food in China, what usually comes to mind are the signature dishes of Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. But beyond the urbanized eastern third of China lie the high open spaces and sacred places of Tibet, the Silk Road oases of Xinjiang, the steppes of Inner Mongolia...

  
• Published by Random House of Canada

  Mangoes and Curry Leaves

  Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent

  A roadmap, for cooks and armchair travellers alike, to one of the world’s richest and most diverse culinary regions, by the authors of Seductions of Rice and Hot Sour Salty Sweet.
  
  From Sri Lanka to Pakistan, from the Himalayan foothills of Nepal and northern India to the lushness of Bangladesh and southern India, the Subcontinent has always been a source of wonder, and for people who love food and cooking, it has forever been a part of the world unlike any other...

  
• Published by Random House of Canada

  HomeBaking

  The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World

  An around-the-world of baking, by the award-winning team that brought us Seductions of Rice and Hot Sour Salty Sweet.
  
  HomeBaking is Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid’s tribute to the worldwide art of home baking. Already consummate breadmakers, they’ve collected here recipes for any type of bread you can imagine -- soda bread, stollen, naan, bannock, ciabatta -- but they also delve into the sweeter side of things. Join them in their travels and learn how...

  
• Published by Random House of Canada

  Seductions of Rice

  A Cookbook

  From the bestselling authors of Hot Sour Salty Sweet, a paperback edition of their critically acclaimed cookbook about the humble grain of rice.
  
  In this essential book about the world’s most essential food, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid travelled to the world’s major rice-eating regions and experienced first-hand dozens of varieties of rice, as well as the staggering array of foods that traditionally accompany them. In Seductions of Rice, they bring it all...