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Claudia Roden (b. 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent. She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including "A Book of Middle Eastern Food", "The New Book of Middle Eastern Food" and "The Book of Jewish Food". In this unique interview for Web of Stories, Claudia Roden is talking to her granddaughter Nelly Wolman about her life in food. [Listener: Nelly Wolman; date recorded: 2022]
TRANSCRIPT: One woman came out of her house. She looked at me and she said, 'Would you like a cup of tea?', in Arabic. And I said, 'Thank you'. And we came and we sat, the kitchen was the front room. It was small, of course. And there were chairs and she said, 'Sit on a chair'. And then I saw there was a smell of lentil soup. And there was a pot on the hob and then I just said, 'Can I have the lentil soup?' And so, she really heated it up a bit, and she gave me a bowl of lentil soup, but she didn't eat, and she waited until I finished. And it was like ours, but a bit different with a spicing. And it's in the Med Book, actually. I put it in there. Because it's always one of our family recipes. And then she just said, 'Where's your husband?' And I said, 'Rah', means: 'He left'. And then I said, 'Where's yours?' And then she said, 'Mat' – 'he died' – with a big smile. And so, we just sat there and then I left. And then I was just thinking, yes, it's funny that also in the kitchen, even there... maybe she wouldn't have asked me if I was in the street. But because I was in the kitchen, there was an intimacy. But that is the kind of questions a lot of people were asking. Because still, women didn't travel alone.
To listen to more of Claudia Roden’s stories, go to the playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVV0r6CmEsFxE7ofp5PbJrqZf8sttxHqJ
Claudia Roden (b. 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent. She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including "A Book of Middle Eastern Food", "The New Book of Middle Eastern Food" and "The Book of Jewish Food". In this unique interview for Web of Stories, Claudia Roden is talking to her granddaughter Nelly Wolman about her life in food. [Listener: Nelly Wolman; date recorded: 2022]
TRANSCRIPT: One woman came out of her house. She looked at me and she said, 'Would you like a cup of tea?', in Arabic. And I said, 'Thank you'. And we came and we sat, the kitchen was the front room. It was small, of course. And there were chairs and she said, 'Sit on a chair'. And then I saw there was a smell of lentil soup. And there was a pot on the hob and then I just said, 'Can I have the lentil soup?' And so, she really heated it up a bit, and she gave me a bowl of lentil soup, but she didn't eat, and she waited until I finished. And it was like ours, but a bit different with a spicing. And it's in the Med Book, actually. I put it in there. Because it's always one of our family recipes. And then she just said, 'Where's your husband?' And I said, 'Rah', means: 'He left'. And then I said, 'Where's yours?' And then she said, 'Mat' – 'he died' – with a big smile. And so, we just sat there and then I left. And then I was just thinking, yes, it's funny that also in the kitchen, even there... maybe she wouldn't have asked me if I was in the street. But because I was in the kitchen, there was an intimacy. But that is the kind of questions a lot of people were asking. Because still, women didn't travel alone.
