Eleanor Ford is a food writer and a cook who uses food as a means to explore culture and understand the world. A ‘culinary detective’, as Yotam Ottolenghi describes her. She is the winner of numerous awards, including an Edward Stanford Travel Writing award and three Guild of Food Writers awards, the most recent of which she won for her third book, The Nutmeg Trail. Alongside writing about food, Eleanor gives talks about it across the globe including regular lectures on spice for The Smithsonian. She lives in London.