Claudia Roden

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born

Cairo, Egypt

gender

female

genre

Cooking, Food & Wine, History

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Claudia Roden was brought up in Cairo. She finished her education in Paris and later studied art in London. Starting as a painter she was drawn to the subject of food partly through a desire to evoke a lost heritage - one of the pleasures of a happy life in Egypt.
With her bestselling classic, A Book of Middle Eastern Food, first published in 1968, Roden revolutionized Western attitudes to the cuisine of the Middle East. Her intensely personal approach and her passionate appreciation of the dishes delighted readers, while she introduced them to a new world of foods, both exotic and wholesome. The book received great critical acclaim.
Mrs Roden continued to write about food with a special interest in the social and historical background of coo...more

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Books by Claudia Roden

Average rating: 4.20 · 1,084 ratings · 111 reviews · 20 distinct works

	The New Book of Middle Eastern Food 4.19 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 1974 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon 4.11 avg rating — 279 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York 4.49 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Food of Spain 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Claudia Roden's the Food of Italy: Region by Region 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Tamarind and Saffron 4.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Mediterranean Cookery (Bbc Books) 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Coffee 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Picnics: And Other Outdoor Feasts 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Claudia Roden's Foolproof Mediterranean Cookery 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating: