Become captivated by Claudia Roden's middle eastern delights in Tamarind & Saffron". "I don't think there's a recipe I don't want to cook in " Tamarind & Saffron". (Nigella Lawson). It
Includes:: Aubergines in a spicy honey sauce; baby onions in tamarind; sweet jewelled rice; & saffron caramel cream. These are just some of the sumptuous recipes in Claudia Roden's collection of new & updated recipes suffused with all the heat spice & sensual aromatics of the Middle East. Claudia Roden's " Book of Middle Eastern Food" (1968) was written for readers who had never eaten an aubergine let alone cooked one. Today Middle Eastern foods are enjoying amazing popularity largely thanks to Roden's books. In " Tamarind & Saffron" Claudia Roden has brought together a fresh collection of recipes for this new generation of cooks illustrated throughout with luscious photography. Praise for Claudia Roden: " Claudia Roden is no more a simple cookbook writer than Marcel Proust was a biscuit baker. She is rather memorialist historian ethnographer anthropologist essayist poet.. .". (Simon Schama). " Every one of Claudia's books introduced us to a delicious new world". (Sam & Sam Clarke). " Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the culture from which it springs". (Nigella Lawson). " Claudia Roden's writing has the fascination of her conversation. Her books are treasure-houses of information & mines of literary pleasures". (" Observer"). As well as writing cookbooks & presenting cooking shows on the BBC Claudia Roden is also a cultural anthropologist based in the United Kingdom. Born & brought up in Cairo she finished her education in Paris before moving to London to study art. With the publication of her bestselling classic "A Book of Middle Eastern Food" in 1968 Claudia Roden revolutionized Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East. Since then she has published nine other books including the award winning classic " The Book of Jewish Food" & has won no fewer than six Glenfiddich awards for her writing. Her other books include " Arabesque" "A Book of Middle Eastern Food" " The Food of Italy" " Mediterranean Cookery" & " The Food of Spain"."