Claudia Roden

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Claudia Roden (2012)

Claudia Roden (born Claudia Douek in 1936 in Cairo , Kingdom of Egypt ) is a British cookbook author.

Life

Claudia Douek's paternal family had moved to Cairo from Aleppo , while her maternal grandmother came from Constantinople , while her Sephardic parents were both born in Cairo and married in 1933. In the upper-class household, the servants did the housework and also cooked.

Claudia Douek spent the last three years of her school attendance in Paris . She then studied art at Saint Martin's School of Art in London . She started painting in a realistic style. After the Suez War in 1956, her parents also emigrated to London. In 1959 she married the manufacturer Paul Roden, from whom she had three children and from whom she divorced in 1979. In 1968 she wrote her first cookbook based on the experiences of her family. Since then, Roden has been writing about the cuisine of the Mediterranean countries and providing the books and recipes with cultural-historical explanations. She wrote for The Daily Telegraph and took a culinary trip to Italy for The Sunday Times Magazine . The BBC made the series Claudia Roden's Mediterranean Cookery with her . In 1979 she attended a meeting that later became the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery .

Roden received the James Beard Foundation Award in 1997 for her book on Jewish cuisine , the Wingate Literary Prize in 1999 and the Prince Claus Prize . She is a Fellow of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London .

Fonts (selection)

  • The food of Spain: a celebration . London: Michael Joseph, 2012
    • Spain the cookbook . Translation Helmut Ertl. Munich: Christian, 2012
  • A Middle Eastern feast . London: Penguin, 2011
  • Arabesque: sumptuous food from Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon . London: Michael Joseph, 2005
    • Arabesque: 180 oriental recipes . Translation Helmut Ertl. Munich: Christian-Verl., 2007
  • Tamarind & saffron: Favorite recipes from the Middle East . London: Viking, 1999
  • A book of Jewish food . London: Viking, 1996
    • The Book of Jewish Cuisine: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York . Translation by Margot Fischer. Vienna: Mandelbaum-Verlag, 2012
  • Invitation to mediterranean cooking . 1992
    • Arabic cuisine, Mediterranean cuisine: vegetables, fish, sweets . Translation Maria Andreas-Hoole and Susanne Vogel. Munich: Kaleidoscope Book, 2001
  • The cooking of the Middle East . London: Martin Books for J Sainsbury, 1991
  • Picnic: The Complete Guide to Outdoor Food . London: Norman, 1981
    • The desire to dine outdoors: picnic recipes from all over the world . Translation by Babina Kulenkampff. Hamburg: Papyrus, 1983
  • Coffee . London: Faber, 1977
  • A book of Middle Eastern food . 1968
    • The cuisine of the Middle East: A wealth of wonderful recipes from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Turkey and Persia . Translation by Babina Kulenkampff. Munich: Heyne, 1982 (different title 1998)

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SURNAME Roden, Claudia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douek, Claudia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British cookbook author
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Kingdom of Egypt