Eleanor Ford is a food writer, recipe developer, and food stylist who spent many years living in Indonesia and has travelled to seventy countries, collecting eclectic and evocative recipes for inspiration or to reproduce. She is the author of the cookbooks Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia and Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia and the Caucasus, which was named a book of the year by The Guardian and Food52's Piglet Tournament of Cookbooks, and awarded a Food and Travel Prize by the Guild of Food Writers, of which she is a member.

Eleanor was also a recipe developer and editor for the Good Food Channel, BBC Food and Good Food magazine; the local editor for Zagat's Hong Kong restaurant guide; a ZagatBuzz restaurant blogger in London and a TimeOut restaurant reviewer specialising in Asian and international foods.