Jeffrey Alford
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Jeffrey Alford is an American-born Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
food writer
Food writing
Food writing is writing that focuses on the topic of food, both widely and narrowly defined.-Definition:Food writer Mark Kurlansky gives the scope of food writing when he observes: “Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man’s relationship with nature, about the climate, about...
, best known for cookbooks co-written with his then wife Naomi Duguid
Naomi Duguid
Naomi Duguid is a Canadian food writer, best known for her cookbooks co-written with her husband Jeffrey Alford.Duguid went on to attend Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and proceeded through law school...
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He was born in Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie, Wyoming
Laramie is a city in and the county seat of Albany County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 30,816 at the . Located on the Laramie River in southeastern Wyoming, the city is west of Cheyenne, at the junction of Interstate 80 and U.S. Route 287....
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/spotlight_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23962_4312498,00.html and graduated from high school there in 1972. He earned a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming
The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,200 feet , between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW to people close to the university...
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He left Wyoming to live in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
and travel the world. He met his former wife Naomi on a bike trip in Tibet
Tibet
Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...
in 1985. They had two sons, and lived in Toronto, Canada.
In 2009, both went their way, and Alford went to live in a small village in Northern Thailand http://jeffreyalford.blogspot.com/2009/08/rainy-season-ive-been-many-times-in.html.
Books
- Flatbreads and Flavors: A Culinary Atlas (ISBN 0-688-11411-3, 1995)
- Seductions of Rice (ISBN 1-57965-234-4, 1998)
- Hot Sour Salty Sweet (ISBN 1-57965-114-3, 2000)
- Home Baking: Sweet and Savory Traditions from Around the World (ISBN 1-57965-174-7, 2003)
- Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent (ISBN 1-57965-252-2, 2005)
- Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China (ISBN 1-57965-301-4, 2008)