CLAUDIA RODEN

Claudia Roden is an incomparable figure in food. Since leaving the Cairo of her childhood and arriving in London to study at St Martin’s School of Art she has blazed a trail for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food in the UK. Still working in her mid-eighties, she shares with us the stories behind her life and career, and why – when her children all left home – she set out to travel the Mediterranean alone and how that journey became her latest book, Med. (Image: Jamie Lau)