Egyptian-born author Claudia Roden left Cairo as a young woman, went to Paris to boarding school, and eventually to London, where she studied art and finally settled. She wrote one of first books on ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. In 1981, at the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, an annual gathering of some of the finest minds in the food world, the cookbook writer Claudia ...