Younger cooks will be impressed by the acknowledgement from super-hostess Nigella Lawson on the cover, ???I love Claudia Roden -- she???s a genius.??? In the late 1960s, Roden took the cookbook world by storm with her ???Book of Middle Eastern Food,??? which introduced Western cooks to dishes such as falafel and baklava, and to ingredients such as olive oil, feta cheese and phyllo pastry.