IN-PERSON EVENT at Essex Market Teaching Kitchen

Writer, photographer, traveler, home cook, and James Beard Award-Winning cookbook author Naomi Duguid, who’s taken food lovers to many corners of the globe, now invites readers and cooks on a very different journey—a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential role in preserving, fermenting, and transforming foods.

Joined in conversation by food writer and beloved home cook, Bettina Makalintal, Duguid will teach us her strategies for how to better understand salt and to trust our intuition while using it in order to become more confident cooks. She’ll share age-old techniques for using salt in foods around the world, as well as providing cultural and historical context. She’ll also discuss her research journey for this book which took her deep into the field of salt archaeology and reveal her more surprising and interesting realizations during the process.

Copies of THE MIRACLE OF SALT by Naomi Duguid are available from our partner bookstore, Kitchen Arts & Letters for purchase online with your ticket or separately at the event. If you order a book with your ticket, you will be able to retrieve it for signing at the event.

Tickets include a glass of wine or beer and a tasting of the Miso Cookies with Dark Chocolate Chips from the book.

This is an in-person event. Tickets must be purchased online in advance. Tickets will not be available for purchase at the door.

NAOMI DUGUID

Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, traveler, and home cook. Her recent cookbook Taste of Persia is the winner of a James Beard Award, an IACP Cookbook Award, and a Taste Canada Award. Her book Burma: Rivers of Flavor is also an IACP Cookbook Award and Taste Canada Award winner. Her six previous award-winning titles, co-authored with Jeffrey Alford, include two now-classic cookbooks that won the James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year: Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas and Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia. Naomi leads small-group food-immersive trips to the Republic of Georgia and elsewhere. She is a Trustee of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, and is a frequent guest speaker and presenter at food conferences, particularly those focused on grains. She lives in Toronto. Follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @naomiduguid.

BETTINA MAKALINTAL

Bettina Makalintal is a Brooklyn-based writer who focuses on the intersections of food, culture, and identity. She is currently a reporter at Eater and previously worked as a print editor at Bon Appétit and a staff writer at Vice's Munchies.

Essex Market is New York City’s most historic public market. Our mission is to foster small business, and to serve the community with fresh and high quality food & services.

Kitchen Arts & Letters is a bookstore devoted to food and drink, with titles imported from around the world. They emphasize works on food culture and innovation.