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  • Published: 14 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529108583
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $65.00
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Med

A Cookbook




World-renowned food writer Claudia Roden revisits Mediterranean cookery 30 years on with new simple, vibrant dishes. A treasure for fans of Ottolenghi SIMPLE (312k TCM) and Persiana (200k TCM).

THE TIMES / SUNDAY TIMES FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR FORTNUM AND MASON COOKERY BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Claudia Roden channels the sun and warm glow of the Mediterranean. To read Claudia is to sit at her table, with everything, simply, as it should be.' - Yotam Ottolenghi

'I could not love this book more. A palpable instant classic, infused with wisdom, generosity and achievable deliciousness. Every page feels like a blessing.' - Nigella Lawson

'Claudia Roden is the queen of all cookbook writers. Med is a beautiful book brimming with wisdom and exquisite good taste.' - Jay Rayner

'It's a book for cooks' - Dan Saladino, BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme

'A bible of classic and comforting dishes that will prove to be the foundations of any cook's kitchen.' - Stylist

Travel the med from the comfort of your kitchen.

Claudia Roden is credited with revolutionising Western attitudes to Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food. Over thirty years on from her first Mediterranean cookbook, Claudia shares the sun-soaked simplicity of the Mediterranean with new recipes for effortless, everyday cooking.

This is how Claudia cooks for friends and family - always putting flavour first, beautiful ingredients, fuss-free cooking, relaxed eating.

From Provence to the Levant, Andalusia to Morocco, explore the many and varied flavours of the Mediterranean as Claudia shares a life's worth of travelling and stories along with the food she cooks now.

  • Published: 14 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781529108583
  • Imprint: Ebury Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $65.00
Categories:

About the author

Claudia Roden

Claudia Roden was born and brought up in Cairo, but was educated in Paris and in London, where she has lived for many years. Widely admired as both a great cook and a fine writer, she has written classic works on Middle Eastern food and Mediterranean cookery, including the award-winning The Book of Jewish Food, and, most recently, The Food of Italy.

Claudia Roden was born and brought up in Cairo. She finished her education in Paris and later studied art in London. Starting as a painter she was drawn to the subject of food partly through a desire to evoke a lost heritage - one of the pleasures of a happy life in Egypt. The local delight in food, like the light, colour and smells and the special brand of hospitality, warmth and humour, has left a permanent impression.

With her bestselling classic, A Book of Middle Eastern Food (Penguin 1970, revised edition A New Book of Middle Eastern Food, 1985), first published in 1968, Claudia Roden revolutionised Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East. Her intensely personal approach and her passionate appreciation of the dishes delighted readers, while she introduced them to a new world of foods, both exotic and wholesome. The book received great critical acclaim, and the publication of the enlarged edition was enthusiastically welcomed.

Mrs Roden has continued to write about food with a special interest in the social and historical background of cooking. In 1981 Penguin reissued Coffee, which was followed in 1982 by Picnic. Then came the BBC television series, Mediterranean Cookery with Claudia Roden, and the accompanying book, Claudia Roden's Mediterranean Cookery, a new, expanded edition of which was recently published. This was followed by The Food of Italy and then The Book of Jewish Food. In 1992, Claudia Roden won the Glenfiddich Trophy, the top prize of the Glenfiddich Awards.

The Book of Jewish Food was awarded the 1998 Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Book Prize for Non-Fiction, was the 1998 Glenfiddich Food Book of the Year and the 1997 André Simon Memorial Fund Food Book. Her latest book is the award-winning Arabesque: Sumptuous Food from Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon.

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Praise for Med

Claudia Roden channels the sun and warm glow of the Mediterranean. To read Claudia is to sit at her table, with everything, simply, as it should be. Pull up a chair for the food; stay at the table for the stories.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I could not love this book more. A palpable instant classic, infused with wisdom, generosity and achievable deliciousness. Every page feels like a blessing.

Nigella Lawson

Claudia Roden is the queen of all cookbook writers. Med is a beautiful book brimming with wisdom and exquisite good taste.

Jay Rayner

Always known for being true to original dishes, in Med the veteran cookery writer Claudia Roden has allowed herself a little more freedom than usual, homing in on the recipes of coastal Spain, France, Italy and north Africa. The result is a book of simple recipes that Roden cooks for friends and family - as well as a record of her long love affair with the cuisines of the Mediterranean.

Bee Wilson, The Times/Sunday Times, Food Book of the Year

The recipes are wonderful, they are given space and time [...] It's a book for cooks.

Dan Saladino, BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme

A bible of classic and comforting dishes that will prove to be the foundations of any cook's kitchen.

Stylist

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