Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
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Caroline Eden’s basement apartment in Edinburgh, which waits patiently for her return from culinary trips across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, is the anchor of her new memoir Cold Kitchen. Eden sits firmly in her kitchen with her dog Darwin as her mind wanders through memories and shares the details of a year’s worth of fortuitous encounters.
The book begins in winter, with a trip to a melon field in Uzbekistan, where an expert trader shares insights on picking the sweetest varieties, and then to a convivial Trans-Siberian railroad car where Russian hand pies go down faster with vodka shots. Each chapter concludes with the recipe Eden is recreating in her kitchen that inspired its origin story dictated on the pages that precede it.
The story continues–spring in Georgia, summer in Poland, autumn in Kyrgyzstan–with an emotional current that sweeps you into Eden’s intimate relationship with traveling, returning home, and finding peace wherever she is.
If you go on the journey with her, you’ll be transported to the heart of her food stories that inspired many of the recipes in her previous cookbooks, Black Sea, Samarkand, and Red Sands.
Hardcover.
