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Jenny Linford

Jenny Linford

jenny is a freelance food writer, a member of the Guild of Food Writers and author of fifteen books, ranging from cookery books to ingredient guides. Over the years she’s written for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, Time Out’s Eating Out guides and The Times. Her website work has included researching and writing for the British Library’s Food Stories website, a fascinating project using audio-clips from the Life Stories collection.

Born in London, her interest in food stems from living as a child in Singapore and Italy, places where good food is important to the community, both taken for granted and relished as a great pleasure.

She’s an inveterate food shopper, always on the look-out for ingredients to cook with or delicious things to eat, whether it be tangy barberries from an Iranian supermarket or a freshly baked barbecued pork bun from one of Chinatown’s bakeries. London’s fantastically diverse food scene offers constant inspiration for recipes, articles and books such as Food Lovers’ London and The London Cookbook.

Time: the Secret Ingredient is her latest book, following books about potatoes, London, tomatoes, garlic, mushrooms and tapas, amongst others.

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  • Lara Maiklem
  • Lee Jackson
  • Xanthi Barker
  • Claire Armitstead
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  • Olia Hercules
  • Johny Pitts
  • Sophie Parkin
  • Stephen Morris
  • Eloise Millar
  • Michele Kirsch
  • Alice Lascelles
  • Niall McDevitt
  • Shiromi Pinto
  • Briony Bax
  • Lynn Enright
  • Kostya Tsolákis
  • Kerry Hudson
  • Caroline Rosie Dent
  • Bruno Vincent
  • Thurston Moore
  • Anthony Cartwright
  • Andy Miller
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Jody Porter
  • Pete Brown
  • Zia Ahmed
  • Golnoosh Nour
  • Joe Haddow
  • Ken Worpole
  • Elizabeth Macneal
  • Louie Stowell
  • Jenny Linford
  • Sean Longden
  • Alex Jackson
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Alissa Timoshkina
  • Anna Birch
  • Ben Moor
  • John Osborne
  • Debora Robertson
  • Ed Miliband
  • Natasha Carthew
  • Felicity Cloake
  • Jo Neary
  • Alan Johnson
  • Crystal Mahey-Morgan
  • Ana Seferović
  • Ashley Hickson-Lovence
  • Nicola Kent
  • Yasmin Khan
  • Sophie Naufal
  • Dina Nayeri
  • Martin Rowson
  • Julia Bueno
  • Coco Khan
  • Jan Noble
  • Ken Worpole
  • Alex Clark
  • Dorian Lynsky
  • Lauren Laverne
  • Sue Quinn
  • Paul Scraton
  • Francesca Cassini
  • Jessica Martin
  • Travis Elborourgh
  • Joel Golby
  • Sali Hughes
  • Niki Segnit
  • Robyn Travis
  • Amir Dotan
  • Joe Kerr
  • Melanie McGrath
  • Nadia Shireen
  • Tom Huddleston
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  • Dan O’Brien
  • Michael Goldfarb
  • Kiare Ladner
  • Neil Denny
  • Catherine Steadman
  • Kirsten Norrie
  • Julius Beltrame
  • Magdalene Forés
  • Joel Morris & Jason Hazeley
  • Serena Constance
  • Daniel Trilling
  • Rachel McCormack
  • Richard Boon
  • Isobel Galleymore
  • Nikesh Shukla
  • Greta Bellamacina
  • Paul Burston
  • Geoff Nicholson
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Sheila Dillon
  • Mariam Khan
  • Georgina Pringle
  • Henny Beaumont
  • Michael Bravo
  • Nigella Lawson
  • Diana Henry
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  • Will Wiles
  • Mazin Saleem
  • Torcuil Crichton
  • Fernando Sdrigotti
  • Suzi Feay
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  • Emanuelle Dirix
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  • Jamie Lee
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  • Tim Wells
  • Sav Akyuz
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