Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, teacher, cook, and world traveler. Her most recent cookbooks, Burma and Taste of Persia, transported readers into cultures and flavors not yet celebrated in the West, and respectively won the 2013 IACP Cookbooks Award for Culinary Travel and both the 2017 IACP Cookbooks Award for Culinary Travel and the 2017 James Beard Award for Best Books of the Year, International. She is a frequent guest speaker and presenter at food conferences. She is the host of Toronto’s Food on Film series and her stock photo agency, Asia Access, is based in Toronto, where she lives when she is not on the road.