Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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)