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Podcast: Desert Island Dishes
Episode: Claudia Roden one of the greatest food writers of all time on the dishes that have shaped her
Description: We are back! For a short mini series but back nonetheless! I missed you! And I'm very excited that today my guest today is Claudia Roden.
Described as the food writer who never goes out of fashion. She began collecting recipes in 1956, while a student in London. The Suez crisis of that year turned many people from Egypt into refugees: preserving the food culture of the Jewish community was as much practical as it was emotional.Â
These recipes led to her debut masterpiece A Book of Middle Eastern Food which really cemented Claudia’s fu...