Jeffrey Alford Explained

Jeffrey Alford was a Canadian food writer, best known for cookbooks co-written with his ex-wife Naomi Duguid.^[1] He died on 17 January 2024, aged sixty-nine.

Biography

Alford was raised in Laramie, Wyoming, and he graduated from high school there in 1972.^[2] He earned a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Wyoming.^[3] After leaving Wyoming, he lived in Ireland and traveled the world.

He met Duguid on a bike trip in Tibet in 1985 and they were married in early 1986. They had two sons, and lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The couple separated in 2009, and Alford went on to live in a small village in Northern Thailand.^[4] He died on 19 January 2024 in a hospital in southern Thailand. The cause was liver failure eventually brought on by a long-ago liver-fluke infection.

Books

• Flatbreads and Flavors: A Culinary Atlas (1995)
• Seductions of Rice (1998)
• Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia (2000)
• Home Baking: Sweet and Savory Traditions from Around the World (2003)
• Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent (2005)
• Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China (2008)
• Chicken in the Mango Tree: Food and Life in a Thai-Khmer Village (2015)

Further reading

• Kramer . Jane . 24 November 2008. Profiles: The Hungry Travellers. . 84 . 38 . 100–106 .

External links

• Hot Sour Salty Sweet: Official website of Jeffrey Alford + Naomi Duguid

Notes and References

1. Book: Smith, Andrew F.. 2007. The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. Oxford University Press. Oxford, England. 154 - 155. 978-0-19-530796-2.
2. News: Meitus, Marty . 14 December 2005 . Jeffrey Alford, an outsider cooking in . Rocky Mountain News . https://web.archive.org/web/20140517152231/http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2005/dec/14/bmeitusb-jeffrey-alford-an-outsider-cooking-in/ . 17 May 2014 . live .
3. Chapman, Sasha. 2005. Spice World:Canada's most acclaimed cookbook writers on their almost accidental success. Toronto Life. November. https://web.archive.org/web/20070617025147/http://torontolife.com/features/spice-world/. 17 June 2007. dead.
4. Web site: Alford, Jeffrey. Rainy season. 12 August 2009. Jeffrey Alford.