Orlando Murrin - Food writer

After being flung into the culinary limelight as a semi-finalist on Masterchef, Orlando Murrin edited BBC Good Food for six years and founded Olive magazine; then switched track to become a chef-hotelier in SW France and Somerset. He has written seven cookbooks and is President of the Guild of Food Writers. An ever-popular guest on TV and radio, he presents the BBC Good Food Podcast with Tom Kerridge. From his grandfather, a Met detective who rose to become a crack MI5 interrogator, he inherited a fascination with crime and mystery. He lives in domestic bliss in Exeter, Devon.

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Features & Stories

Watch the replay of Eleanor Ford in conversation with Orlando Murrin at the North London Book Fest

On March 24th 2024, award-winning author Eleanor Ford was interviewed at the inaugural North London Book Fest by Guild of Food Writers president Orlando Murrin about her latest book, A Whisper of Cardamom. Want to avoid “dusty disappointment’ when storing spices, and to find out Eleanor’s current favorite recipe in the book? Watch the recording for all this and much more…

Magrets & Mushrooms - a ckbk original

Jeanne Strang’s Goose Fat & Garlic is arguably the classic work on the regional cooking of South-West France, and has been reprinted many times since its publication in 1991.Today ckbk is proud to publish Magrets & Mushrooms, the long-awaited sequel to this work. The new book is the first publication in a new series of “ckbk originals”, published under ckbk’s own imprint and available in print, as a Kindle ebook, and via the ckbk app.

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