The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Garden’s "Taste of Art" is back for its third installment in the virtual series, Women in the Collections. In this session, Gomez-Rejón focuses on A Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia Roden.
Upon moving to London from her native Cairo, Claudia Roden began sourcing recipes from fellow refugees and immigrants who longed for their native foods. Prior to the publication of A Book of Middle Eastern Food in 1968, all Middle Eastern cookbooks in English were translations of medieval recipes. Part cookbook author and part cultural anthropologist, Roden's first cookbook is a landmark in culinary history.
The class begins with the history behind the cookbook with a cooking demonstration from the featured cookbook.
On the menu:
Rosewater Gin Cocktail
Falafel
Tahini Cream Salad with Yogurt
Baba Ganoush
90 minutes
$30 members / $45 non-members