Claudia Roden

Claudia Roden CBE
Roden in the chair at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2012
Born	Claudia Douek 1936 (age 87–88) Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist
Spouse	Paul Roden (divorced)
Children	3
Relatives	Ellis Douek (brother)

Claudia Roden CBE (née Douek; born 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including A Book of Middle Eastern Food, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food and Arabesque—Sumptuous Food from Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon.^{[2][3][5][7][8]}