Naomi Duguid: Exploring the World through Food

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:51 — 30.2MB)

Subscribe: Google Podcasts | Spotify | Android | RSS | More

Portrait of Naomi Duguid sitting in front of bookshelves Photographer, writer, traveller, cook, geographer, culinary anthropologist: Naomi Duguid is all this, and more. True, her books contain approachable recipes that have won awards and accolades from food-first organisations, like the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals. But they also offer sensitive insights into the lives of people far from her native Canada. Why do they prepare, cook and eat the foods they do? How does the way they live influence the way they eat, and vice versa? And all illustrated with her photographs, at once both informative and atmospheric.

Though the people and food she chronicles are from far away, she has a knack of preserving their distinctness while making us all neighbours.

A woman cheesemaker in front of a fire with a bowl of curds on her hip — A cheesemaker farmer in rural southern Georgia, not far from the Turkish and Armenian borders.

Notes

Naomi Duguid’s website is at naomiduguid.com, but you’re much more likely to find her on Instagram or Twitter.
You can find Burma: River of Flavors and Taste of Persia at bookshop.org and getting them there gives independent bookshops (and me) a hand.
The transcript is here.
Cover photo by Randy Risling/Toronto Star

Huffduff it

About Eat This Podcast

Eat This Podcast has been going since March 2013. That’s a long time in podcast world. In that time, it has twice been nominated for a James Beard Award, although it remains a labour of love rather than a search for glory.

I am a biologist with a keen interest in food and agriculture. Eat This Podcast allows me to pursue my interests and share what I find.

I owe an immense debt of gratitude to all the guests who agree to be on the show, to the professional broadcasters who trained me, and to the software that allows me to do all this myself.

Subscribe here to get an email for each new episode. Between episodes, Eat This Newsletter brings you a selection of choice items I’ve found.

You will need to confirm your subscription, so look out for that and, maybe, check your spam folder.

Non-podcast News

34 thoughts on Naomi Duguid: Exploring the World through Food “We write to travel … It was never the other way around.”

mısırlarülkesi🌽 liked this post 4 years ago.

Rachel Laudan mentioned this post 4 years ago.

How to learn when traveling. Why simple cooking is so difficult. And never condescend. Listen and learn from @naomiduguid‘s reflections on interacting with others on @EatPodcast. eatthispodcast.com/naomi-duguid/

Vasile Stoica💭 liked this post 4 years ago.

TASTEofCULTURE liked this post 4 years ago.

Holly Bruns liked this post 4 years ago.

Salt Friend liked this post 4 years ago.

Naomi Duguid liked this post 4 years ago.

Naomi Duguid commented 4 years ago.

Home-cooking; no recipes?

“Well, no, but there are instructions. … There’s somebody sitting on your shoulder saying, Tsk, tsk, tsk. There

AgroBioDiverse commented 4 years ago.

Home-cooking; no recipes?

“Well, no, but there are instructions. … There’s somebody sitting on your shoulder saying, Tsk, tsk, tsk. There

Angelo Angelli commented 4 years ago.

This was a great interview. Duguid is a fine example of a curious, open mind.

TASTEofCULTURE liked this post 4 years ago.

Anna liked this post 4 years ago.

Yolanda Chen liked this post 4 years ago.

varnam liked this post 4 years ago.

Gena PhilibertOrtega liked this post 4 years ago.

Claire Bate-Roullin liked this post 4 years ago.

Wash Your Hands liked this post 4 years ago.

Wash Your Hands mentioned this post 4 years ago.

Saving this for a treat for later.

Rachel Laudan commented 4 years ago.

Such an interesting chat with @naomiduguid for the latest episode. Her travels, her approach to learning about cultures and food, her photog

Ronald Gordon liked this post 4 years ago.

Naomi Duguid commented 4 years ago.

Thanks Jeremy for your thoughtfulness. A very enjoyable conversation.

Ashis Basu liked this post 4 years ago.

Sam Carter-Shamai liked this post 4 years ago.

Sherna Khambatta liked this post 4 years ago.

ckbk liked this post 4 years ago.

Naomi Duguid liked this post 4 years ago.

ckbk mentioned this post 4 years ago.

Great podcast with @naomiduguid about her extensive culinary travels. You can access a number of books & recipes on @ckbk app.ckbk.com/authors/naomi-… https://t.co/vL0aYQEY9d

ckbk commented 4 years ago.

We’re looking forward to listening to this & have a number of Naomi’s cookbooks on @ckbk app.ckbk.com/authors/naomi-…

Alex_cat liked this post 4 years ago.

Sherna Khambatta commented 4 years ago.

Such an interesting chat with @naomiduguid for the latest episode. Her travels, her approach to learning about cultures and food, her photog

Naomi Duguid commented 4 years ago.

Such an interesting chat with @naomiduguid for the latest episode. Her travels, her approach to learning about cultures and food, her photog

Anke Klitzing liked this post 4 years ago.

Alex_cat commented 4 years ago.

Such an interesting chat with @naomiduguid for the latest episode. Her travels, her approach to learning about cultures and food, her photog

AgroBioDiverse commented 4 years ago.

Such an interesting chat with @naomiduguid for the latest episode. Her travels, her approach to learning about cultures and food, her photog