Honorary Fellowship, Claudia Roden, SOAS Graduation 2012, SOAS, University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 02/05/2014

Claudia Roden was awarded an Honorary Fellowship at the 2012 SOAS Graduation Ceremony. 

Claudia Roden is a highly regarded international cookery writer with a special interest in the social, historical and cultural background of food.

Ms Roden was born in Egypt in 1936 and attended the English School Cairo. At the age of 15 she went to Paris for three years before coming to London to study at St. Martin's School of Art. Ms Roden worked at Alitalia, the Italian airline and started collecting recipes from relatives and friends. Drawn to the subject of food, she began to write about the cooking of the Middle East, North Africa, the Mediterranean, Italy and Spain and on Jewish food.

Find out more about Anthropology of Food at SOAS at https://www.soas.ac.uk/foodstudies/
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