The Nutmeg Trail

Eleanor Ford is a food writer, recipe developer, and food stylist who has traveled to seventy-seven countries, collecting eclectic and evocative recipes for inspiration or to reproduce. Her book Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia (Apollo Publishers) won the Best International or Regional Cookbook award at the 2020 Guild of Food Writers Awards, and the Kerb Food and Drink Travel Book of the Year award at the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. She is also the coauthor of the cookbook Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia and the Caucasus, which was named a book of the year by The Guardian and Food52's Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks, and awarded a Food and Travel Prize by the Guild of Food Writers. Eleanor was also a recipe developer and editor for the Good Food Channel, BBC Food, and Good Food magazine; the local editor for Zagat's Hong Kong restaurant guide; a Zagat Buzz restaurant blogger in London; and a Time Out restaurant reviewer specializing in Asian and international foods. Eleanor lives in London, England.