Best 4 quotes of Claudia Roden on MyQuotes

Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.

Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.

The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

True gastronomy is making the most of what is available, however modest.