Culinary Masters Collection - Claudia Roden

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Arts, Food

4.3 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Every week on our show, we celebrate the intersection of food and life. And this month, we’re highlighting some of the most iconic people in the food world. It’s a new collection called Culinary Masters. We revisit interviews with some of the people who have fundamentally changed how many of us cook and think about food. This week, we're all about the iconic Claudia Roden, who helped introduce the food of the Middle East and Mediterranean to the English-speaking world.

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1:01.4	Hey, it's Francis lamb and you're listening to our culinary masters collection conversations with some of our favorite guests through the years this week we're all about the iconic
1:05.8	claudia rodin who helped introduce the food of the middle east and mediterranean to the english
1:10.3	speaking world have a listen who helped introduce the food of the Middle East and Mediterranean to the English-speaking world.
1:11.5	Have a listen.
1:15.6	Hey, you know the old cliche about how you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep?
1:20.4	Well, when you ascend to a certain stratosphere of legendariness,
1:24.7	you can tell a lot about a person by the people who credit them for
1:27.5	pretty much everything. This week, we're talking to Claudia Rodin, the Egyptian British
1:33.3	food writer who started her publishing career over 50 years ago with a landmark tome with an
1:39.4	unassuming title, a book of Middle Eastern food. Well, that unassuming-sounding book introduced pretty much all of the Middle Eastern
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