Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China is a book by Jeffrey Afford and 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. 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 parted company in 2009. Naomi Duguid continues to live in Toronto, and Jeffrey Alford now makes his home in Thailand.more
Jeffrey Alford is an American-born Canadian food writer, best known for cookbooks co-written with his then wife Naomi Duguid. He was born in Laramie, Wyoming and graduated from high school there in 1972. He earned a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Wyoming. He left Wyoming... to live in Ireland and travel the world. He met his former wife Naomi on a bike trip in Tibet 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 .more
A cookbook is a kitchen reference publication that typically contains a collection of recipes. Modern versions may also include colorful... illustrations and advice on purchasing quality ingredients or making substitutions. Cookbooks can also cover a wide variety topics, including cooking techniques for the home, recipes and commentary from famous chefs, institutional kitchen manuals, and cultural commentary. The earliest cookbooks on record seem to be mainly lists of recipes for what would now be called haute cuisine, and were often written primarily to either provide a record of the author's favorite dishes or to train professional cooks for banquets and upper-class, private homes. Many of these cookbooks, therefore, provide only limited sociological or culinary value, as they leave out significant sections of ancient cuisine such as peasant food, breads, and preparations such as vegetable dishes too simple to warrant a recipe. The earliest collection of recipes that has survived in Europe is De re coquinaria, written in Latin.more
Travel is the movement of people or objects between relatively distant geographical locations. The term "travel" originates from the Old French word... travail. The term also covers all the activities performed during a travel . A person who travels is spelled "traveler" in the United States, and "traveller" in the United Kingdom. Reasons for traveling include recreation, tourism or vacationing, research travel for the gathering of information, for holiday to visit people, volunteer travel for charity, migration to begin life somewhere else, religious pilgrimages and mission trips, business travel, trade, commuting, and other reasons, such as to obtain health care or fleeing war or for the enjoyment of traveling. Travel may occur by human-powered transport such as walking or bicycling, or with vehicles, such as public transport, automobiles, trains and airplanes. Motives to travel include pleasure, relaxation, discovery and exploration, getting to know other cultures and taking personal time for building interpersonal relationships. Travel may be local, regional, national or international.more