Acknowledgements

Ghillie Başan has written more than forty books on different culinary cultures and has been shortlisted for the Glenfiddich Award, the Guild of Food Writers Award and the Cordon Bleu World Food Media Award. Her latest book, on Lebanese cooking, won Best in the World in the Gourmand International Cookbook Awards 2021. Her food and travel articles have appeared in a huge variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, BBC Good Food magazine and Delicious magazine. As a broadcaster she has presented and contributed to many BBC radio programmes and produces her own podcast, Spirit & Spice, which is also the title of her most recent book which features her lifestyle and food in a remote part of the Highlands where she runs cookery workshops and whisky and food pairing experiences.