Jeffrey Alford

Jeffrey Alford is a writer, photographer, traveler and cook based primarily in northeast Thailand. He is the co-author, with Naomi Duguid, of six international cookbooks: Flatbreads and Flavors, Seductions of Rice, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, HomeBaking, Mangoes and Curry Leaves, and Beyond the Great Wall. Both Flatbreads and Flavours and Hot Sour Salty Sweet won the James Beard Award for best Cookbook of the Year and Seductions of Rice and HomeBaking each won a Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award....See more

Jeffrey Alford is a writer, photographer, traveler and cook based primarily in northeast Thailand. He is the co-author, with Naomi Duguid, of six international cookbooks: Flatbreads and Flavors, Seductions of Rice, Hot Sour Salty Sweet, HomeBaking, Mangoes and Curry Leaves, and Beyond the Great Wall. Both Flatbreads and Flavours and Hot Sour Salty Sweet won the James Beard Award for best Cookbook of the Year and Seductions of Rice and HomeBaking each won a Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award. Jeffrey has contributed to Saveur, Food and Wine, Food Arts, Gourmet, and many other magazines. He has appeared on the Food Network and The Martha Stewart Show. Formerly based in Toronto, Ontario, he now lives in Surin Province in northeast Thailand twelve miles north of the Cambodian border, with wife Somphit Janprung (better known as "Pea"). See less