Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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)