738: Legendary Food Writer Claudia Roden

The Splendid Table: Conversations & Recipes For Curious Cooks & Eaters

American Public Media

Arts, Food

4.2 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This week, the legendary food writer Claudia Roden joins us from her home in London to talk about her career and her journey as a food writer. We learn about the first time she started exchanging written recipes, how she traveled and worked her way into kitchens all across the Mediterranean and how she created a singular style of food writing. She is the author of many groundbreaking books, including A Book of Middle Eastern Food, and her newest, coming out this fall in 2021, Claudia Roden’s Mediterranean: Treasured Recipes from a Lifetime of Travel. We also talk to one her biggest fans, chef Yotam Ottolenghi about his admiration for Claudia’s unique approach to food writing and historical knowledge of food and background. Plus, he shares one of his favorite recipes from his book, Plenty More inspired by one of her dishes.

Photo Credit: Jamie Lau Waitrose & Partners Food

Broadcast dates for this episode:

July 23, 2021 (originally aired)
July 22, 2022 (rebroadcast)
March 31, 2023 (rebroadcast)

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0:33.2	This week, it's an encore of our conversation with one of the great legends of cuisine.
0:37.6	Actually, two of them.
0:38.6	It's our discussion with the great Claudia Rodin, and with one of her biggest fans,
0:42.8	Yotan Odelangi.
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0:55.1	Hey, you know the old cliche about how you can tell a lot about a person by the company
0:58.8	they keep?
0:59.8	Well, when you ascend to a certain stratosphere of legendariness, you can tell a lot about
1:04.9	a person by the people who credit them for pretty much everything.
1:09.1	This week, we're talking to Claudia Rodin, the Egyptian British food writer who started
1:13.7	her publishing career over 50 years ago, with a landmark tone with an unassuming title,
1:19.9	a book of Middle Eastern food.
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