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;‎ and saffron caramel cream‎.‎ These are just some of the sumptuous recipes in Claudia Roden‎'‎s collection of new and updated recipes‎,‎ suffused with all the heat‎,‎ spice and 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 and 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 and 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 and mines of literary pleasures"‎.‎ ‎(‎"Observer"‎)‎‎.‎ As well as writing cookbooks and presenting cooking shows on the BBC‎,‎ Claudia Roden is also a cultural anthropologist based in the United Kingdom‎.‎ Born and 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"‎,‎ and 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" and "The Food of Spain"‎.‎