Alford, Jeffrey

Jeffrey Alford is a writer and photographer based primarily in northeast Thailand and Cambodia. He plants and harvests rice each year; helps raise frogs and several varieties of fish; and happily struggles along in three languages: Central Thai, Lao Isaan, and Northern Khmer. His forthcoming book, to be published in 2014, is tentatively titled "How Pea Cooks: Food and Life in a Thai-Khmer Village". His earlier books, all co-written with Naomi Duguid, are "Flatbreads and Flavors;""HomeBaking; Seductions of Rice; Hot Sour Salty Sweet; Mangoes and Curry Leaves"; and "Beyond the Great Wall." Jeffr...