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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: I didn't know how to type, and I didn't have a typewriter. And I wrote everything by hand. And I wrote them in lined papers from Smiths. And I still do. It's still the same writing pads that I did then, that I do now. And I wrote, of course, longhand. But eventually, I had a wonderful, wonderful woman, a lady, an old lady, to type them. She typed my handwritten. But I should have said that I didn't leave... the Middle Eastern Book isn't all my family. Because I just became so interested that I wanted to discover what everybody in Morocco, in Turkey ate. Not just the Jews who left those countries and came to Egypt.
And so, I had a period – but that was before I decided to do the book – I had a period when I would go, for instance, to an embassy, and... where can I find Iranians? And I would go to the embassy, and they said, 'Have you come here for a...' – in those days, it was all pretty open and all that – 'for a visa?' And I said, 'No, I've come to find people who could give me recipes'. And, oh, they were very, very curious. I would sit there, and I would ask people sitting there. And they would... actually told me, 'Come around to eat'. And I went. And I have their recipes in their handwriting. Because they read handwritten recipes. They gave them to me.
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: I didn't know how to type, and I didn't have a typewriter. And I wrote everything by hand. And I wrote them in lined papers from Smiths. And I still do. It's still the same writing pads that I did then, that I do now. And I wrote, of course, longhand. But eventually, I had a wonderful, wonderful woman, a lady, an old lady, to type them. She typed my handwritten. But I should have said that I didn't leave... the Middle Eastern Book isn't all my family. Because I just became so interested that I wanted to discover what everybody in Morocco, in Turkey ate. Not just the Jews who left those countries and came to Egypt.
And so, I had a period – but that was before I decided to do the book – I had a period when I would go, for instance, to an embassy, and... where can I find Iranians? And I would go to the embassy, and they said, 'Have you come here for a...' – in those days, it was all pretty open and all that – 'for a visa?' And I said, 'No, I've come to find people who could give me recipes'. And, oh, they were very, very curious. I would sit there, and I would ask people sitting there. And they would... actually told me, 'Come around to eat'. And I went. And I have their recipes in their handwriting. Because they read handwritten recipes. They gave them to me.
