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The club in Egypt and vibrant life in Paris
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1. My childhood in Egypt | 12 | 03:19 | |
2. Egyptian culture | 5 | 01:18 | |
3. Women in Egypt | 5 | 01:06 | |
4. Growing up in Egypt | 4 | 03:25 | |
5. From England to Paris | 4 | 03:12 | |
6. Lycée Hélene Boucher | 4 | 03:09 | |
7. Discovering French cuisine and wine | 3 | 04:27 | |
8. Suitcase full of fashion | 3 | 01:05 | |
9. Life in Egypt | 3 | 01:00 | |
10. The club in Egypt and vibrant life in Paris | 3 | 05:09 |
In Egypt, when I was 14 already, and a bit younger even, a lot of the older people... I also have to say, when I was in Egypt, most of my life was, apart from the school and going to the cinema once a week with the whole family, I was always with the whole family. I never went out alone. I never took a bus or a tram. And I went mainly to the club. And the club had Olympic swimming pool. And we trained. I say we, because we were... several of us were big swimmers. And I was a swimmer, and I swam in championships.
Claudia Roden (b. 1936) is an Egyptian-born British cookbook writer and cultural anthropologist of Sephardi/Mizrahi descent. She is best known as the author of Middle Eastern cookbooks including A Book of Middle Eastern Food, The New Book of Middle Eastern Food and The Book of Jewish Food.
Title: Life in Egypt
Listeners: Nelly Wolman
Claudia Roden talking to her granddaughter Nelly Wolman about her life in food.
Tags: swimming, swimming pool, training, championships
Duration: 1 minute
Date story recorded: September 2022
Date story went live: 26 November 2023