Naomi Duguid

Who is Naomi Duguid?

Naomi Duguid is a food writer and photographer from Canada. Duguid is based in Toronto and has coauthored six cookbooks. Burma: Rivers of Flavor is her first solo publication. She is best known for her cookbooks co-written with her ex-husband Jeffrey Alford.

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.

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.

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 now lives in Thailand.