Claudia Roden's first and best-known cookery title refreshed with a beautiful new cover
Claudia Roden is a cookbook writer and anthropologist based in the
UK. She grew up in Cairo and studied in both Paris and London.
She has published multiple bestsellers including the international
award-winning The Book of Jewish Food, and she revolutionised
Western attitudes to Middle Eastern cuisines in 1968 with her
bestselling cookbook, A Book of Middle Eastern Food.
Aside from her writing career Roden has presented cookery shows on
the BBC and she is co-chair of the Oxford Symposium on Food and
Cookery.
Claudia Roden is no more a simple cookbook writer than Marcel
Proust was a biscuit baker. She is, rather, memorialist, historian,
ethnographer, anthropologist, essayist, poet ...
*Simon Schama*
Claudia Roden's writing has the fascination of her conversation.
Her books are treasure-houses of information and mines of literary
pleasures
*Observer*
Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the
culture from which it springs
*Nigella Lawson*
Beyond the evocative stories and buoyant style ... there is always
information ... meticulously collected, compellingly assembled,
lovingly told ... informative, delectable and incredibly useful
*Yotam Ottolenghi*
Claudia Roden is no more a simple cookbook writer than Marcel
Proust was a biscuit baker. She is, rather, memorialist, historian,
ethnographer, anthropologist, essayist, poet ... -- Simon
Schama
Claudia Roden's writing has the fascination of her conversation.
Her books are treasure-houses of information and mines of literary
pleasures * Observer *
Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the
culture from which it springs -- Nigella Lawson
Beyond the evocative stories and buoyant style ... there is
always information ... meticulously collected, compellingly
assembled, lovingly told ... informative, delectable and incredibly
useful -- Yotam Ottolenghi
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