Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, teacher, cook, and world traveler. Her cookbook “Burma,” brought news of a long-forgotten part of the world and was winner of the 2013 IACP Cookbook Award for Culinary Travel and the Taste Canada Food Writing Award. Her previous award-winning titles, co-authored with Jeffrey Alford, include “Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas,” their first book, which won a James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year; “Seductions of Rice; Hot Sour Salty Sweet,” also a James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Her most recent book is “Taste of Persia: A Cook’s travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran and Kurdistan,”