Eleanor Ford

Eleanor Ford is a food writer, recipe developer, and food stylist who spent many years living in Indonesia and has traveled to seventy countries, collecting eclectic and evocative recipes for inspiration or to reproduce. She is the coauthorof 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, of which she is a member, a cookbook and restaurant reviewer, and a judge for food awards. 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 ZagatBuzz restaurant blogger in London; and a TimeOut restaurant reviewer specializing in Asian and international foods. Eleanor lives in London, England.