Awards & Winners

Naomi Duguid

Date of Birth 1950
Place of Birth Ottawa
(Ontario, Ottawa Valley, Canada)
Nationality Canada
Profession Food writer
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.

Awards by Naomi Duguid

Check all the awards nominated and won by Naomi Duguid.

2013


Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for International Cooking Burma: Rivers of Flavor

2009


James Beard Award for International Cooking
Honored for : Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
James Beard Award for Asian
Honored for : Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
IACP Cookbook Award - International
Honored for : Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Asian Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China
James Beard Award for International Cooking Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China

2006


IACP Cookbook Award - International
Honored for : Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Photography Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent

2001


James Beard Award for Photography
Honored for : Hot Sour Salty Sweet
James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year
Honored for : Hot Sour Salty Sweet

Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year Hot Sour Salty Sweet
James Beard Award for International Cooking Hot Sour Salty Sweet
James Beard Award for Photography Hot Sour Salty Sweet

1996


James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year
Honored for : Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas
James Beard Award for Baking and Dessert
Honored for : Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas

Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas
James Beard Award for Baking and Dessert Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas