Culinary Historians NY: Food of Spain, Claudia Roden

Culinary Historians of New York and Queen Sofia Spanish Institute
present

Claudia Roden
The Food of Spain: A Most Intricate Gastronomic Tapestry

June 8, 2011, 7 pm

Perched at the tip of the Mediterranean, like a sentry guarding the vast Atlantic ocean, Spain was for millennia the final western stop for Phoenicians, Romans, and Muslims, while, to the north, the majestic Pyrenees have funneled Goths, Franks, and others into the Iberian peninsula. Spain’s extraordinary geographic diversity and its dramatic patchwork history result in a land of breathtaking gastronomic diversity. Claudia Roden will focus on the historical influences that produced a unique, colorful, and sensuous cuisine where every dish holds memories and stories of the past.

Claudia Roden has spent a lifetime studying the foods and cultures of the Near East and Mediterranean, and is the author of many cookbooks, including A Book of Middle Eastern Food, A Book of Jewish Food (James Beard Award winner), and, most recently, Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon, winner of the André Simon Memorial Award, the Glenfiddich Best Food Book Award, and the Gourmand World Media Special Jury Award. This lecture celebrates the publication of Roden’s latest work, The Food of Spain (HarperCollins).

Reception to follow, with support from Wines of Spain and Despaña.

Location:
Queen Sofia Spanish Institute
684 Park Avenue (at 68th Street)
New York, New York

Time:
6:30 Check-in |7:00 pm Lecture | 8:00 pm Reception
Fee:
$40 Non-Members and Guests | $25 CHNY Members | $22 CHNY Senior & Student Members

PLEASE NOTE START TIME. THE LECTURE BEGINS AT 7:00 AND THE RECEPTION FOLLOWS.

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Published on Jan 28, 2013
Claudia Roden is the author of ten popular and critically-acclaimed cookery books focusing on the foods of the Middle East, North Africa, the Mediterranean, Italy, and Spain, and is an Honorary Fellow of SOAS. Her lecture will reflect on a career of engagement with the social and historical dimensions of the foods about which she has written.

You can find out more about the SOAS Food Studies Centre at http://www.soas.ac.uk/foodstudies/