Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People | Claudia Roden - Wet nurses in Egypt (153/155) @webofstories | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
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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: In the 19th Century and the early 20th Century, there weren't yet powdered milk and if a woman could not have milk, she had to have a wet nurse. And the Jews felt... the Muslims were used to having women from the villages to come and be a wet nurse. But the Jews felt that they weren't maybe as clean as they were. Because also those who were nannies, we had... for instance, one of our friends had a Muslim nanny and the children... the baby cried, she gave them a bit of marijuana or something. So, we felt, I think, that a European was something that we wanted to have as a nanny to bring up our children. And so, my grandmother did not breastfeed her five daughters. She would not breastfeed them. And so, she must have had a Slovene. But she breastfed her son who was the last for four years. That's telling you something.
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: In the 19th Century and the early 20th Century, there weren't yet powdered milk and if a woman could not have milk, she had to have a wet nurse. And the Jews felt... the Muslims were used to having women from the villages to come and be a wet nurse. But the Jews felt that they weren't maybe as clean as they were. Because also those who were nannies, we had... for instance, one of our friends had a Muslim nanny and the children... the baby cried, she gave them a bit of marijuana or something. So, we felt, I think, that a European was something that we wanted to have as a nanny to bring up our children. And so, my grandmother did not breastfeed her five daughters. She would not breastfeed them. And so, she must have had a Slovene. But she breastfed her son who was the last for four years. That's telling you something.
