Tune in for this special podcast-only release of The Archive Project for 2022 Portland Book Festival. Acclaimed, award-winning cookbook author Naomi Duguid discusses her new book, The Miracle of Salt: Recipes and Techniques to Preserve, Ferment, and Transform Your Food with Liz Crain (Dumplings Equal Love). The Miracle of Salt is —a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential role in preserving, fermenting, and transforming food. Naomi and Liz chat about age-old techniques, favorite recipes, and translating traditional methods for modern kitchens.

Naomi Duguid is a writer, photographer, traveler, and home cook. Her new book is The Miracle of Salt, and 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.

Liz Crain is the author of Food Lover’s Guide to Portland, and coauthor of the cookbooks Toro Bravo and Hello! My Name Is Tasty, as well as Grow Your Own: Understanding, Cultivating, and Enjoying Cannabis. Her latest is the cookbook Dumplings Equal Love. She is a longtime writer on Pacific Northwest food and drink, and her writing has appeared in Lucky Peach, Food & Wine, the Sun magazine, the Progressive, and the Guardian. She is also a seasoned copywriter, fiction writer, as well as co-organizer of the annual Portland Fermentation Festival.