Claudia Roden signing in Amsterdam
The Kookboekhandel in Amsterdam moved to a new location in the Haarlemmerdijk, and invited Claudia Roden to sign her new book, Arabesque, there to commemmorate the opening (thank you Ronald from Zestz for the tip!).
I have been a fan of Claudia Roden for a long time, since buying her Book on Jewish Cooking. Her cookbooks are all very well researched and beautifully written. They have such depths; you get a glimse of myriad culinary worlds by reading them, and this makes you feel there is so much to explore, and so much to taste and cook! She was granted one of the Prince Claus Awards in 1999 in for all her work, which was kind of a wake-up call for me: so thinking about food and cooking CAN be a serious affair...
So here I was, queueing in the seriously crowded bookstore, excited to see so many fans together, and spotting Johannes van Dam (how could anyone miss his imposing figure, hat and all?) in one go. "To Alice, with best wishes , Claudia Roden" she wrote, and I told her I greatly admire her work. She just smiled and thanked me. Such a charming and dignified lady! I was truly happy to have gone to see her, and I walked away proudly with my signed volume of Arabesque, which I started reading on the train back home.
I have been a fan of Claudia Roden for a long time, since buying her Book on Jewish Cooking. Her cookbooks are all very well researched and beautifully written. They have such depths; you get a glimse of myriad culinary worlds by reading them, and this makes you feel there is so much to explore, and so much to taste and cook! She was granted one of the Prince Claus Awards in 1999 in for all her work, which was kind of a wake-up call for me: so thinking about food and cooking CAN be a serious affair...
So here I was, queueing in the seriously crowded bookstore, excited to see so many fans together, and spotting Johannes van Dam (how could anyone miss his imposing figure, hat and all?) in one go. "To Alice, with best wishes , Claudia Roden" she wrote, and I told her I greatly admire her work. She just smiled and thanked me. Such a charming and dignified lady! I was truly happy to have gone to see her, and I walked away proudly with my signed volume of Arabesque, which I started reading on the train back home.
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