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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Claudia Roden

Born: 1936 (age 89)
Bio: Claudia Roden is a cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist based in the United Kingdom. She was born in 1936 in Cairo, Egypt. After completing her formal education in Paris, she moved to London to study at Saint Martin's School of Art.
Known for:
- The New Book of Middle Eastern Food (1985)
- The book of Jewish food (1996)
- A book of Middle Eastern food (1968)
- The Food of Spain (2011)
- Arabesque (2005)