A New Book of Middle Eastern Food
The Essential Guide to Middle Eastern Cooking. As Heard on BBC Radio 4
Claudia Roden
A New Book of Middle Eastern Food
The Essential Guide to Middle Eastern Cooking. As Heard on BBC Radio 4
Claudia Roden
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Description
As well as writing cookbooks and presenting cooking shows on the BBC, the author is also a cultural anthropologist based in the United Kingdom. This title features a collection of recipes from the subtle, spicy, varied cuisines of the Middle East, ranging from inexpensive but tasty peasant fare to elaborate banquet dishes.
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 ...
Claudia Roden's writing has the fascination of her conversation. Her books are treasure-houses of information and mines of literary pleasures
Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the culture from which it springs
Beyond the evocative stories and buoyant style ... there is always information ... meticulously collected, compellingly assembled, lovingly told ... informative, delectable and incredibly useful
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 ...
Claudia Roden's writing has the fascination of her conversation. Her books are treasure-houses of information and mines of literary pleasures
Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the culture from which it springs
Beyond the evocative stories and buoyant style ... there is always information ... meticulously collected, compellingly assembled, lovingly told ... informative, delectable and incredibly useful
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.