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Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
Contributor(s): Eden, Caroline (Author)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing 
ISBN: 1526658984

Physical Info: 1.02" H x 9.49" L x 6.37" W (0.99 lbs) 256 pages

 

Caroline Eden is a writer, book critic, and the award-winning author of Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland, a New Yorker Book of the Year; Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes - Through Darkness and Light; and Samarkand: Recipes and Stories from Central Asia & the Caucasus. She has travelled extensively to countries such as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, and Bangladesh, documenting her experiences across multiple publications including Financial Times, the Guardian, and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as on BBC Radio 4's "From Our Own Correspondent." She lives in Edinburgh.

Review Quotes:

"Structured around a dozen recipes . . . it's a memoir, travelogue and cookbook in which those facets add up to a delicious whole." --The Los Angeles Times

"Delectable journeys . . . Eden gently invites readers into those other worlds and, graciously, into the warmth of her fragrant kitchen. A lyrical, captivating memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Eden . . . recreates dishes and evocatively recounts the journeys to the Baltics, Central Asia, and the South Caucusus that inspired them . . . As for her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden's efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist
"[ Cold Kitchen] revolves around 12 recipes, each of which are a launching pad for Eden's mesmerizing considerations about travel and home." -- The Week
"In her subterranean kitchen in Edinburgh, Scotland, Eden recreates the flavors of her travels, reconnecting to these far-flung destinations with the comfort of her dog at her side . . . Cold Kitchen is an invitation to appreciate every morsel of the present moment." -- BookPage
"Caroline Eden's Cold Kitchen thinks about food and appetite and cooking in all the right ways and none of the wrong ones . . . Like any good book about the domestic arts, Cold Kitchen is a sermon against despair, despite/because of the author's familiarity with places of war." -- The Times Literary Supplement, "Books of the Year"
"One of my favourite food writers . . . wonderfully evocative." -- The Bookseller, "Editor's Choice"
"We've really enjoyed Cold Kitchen, Caroline Eden's travel memoir hewn through recipes from as far and wide as Central Asia, Ukraine, the Baltics and Turkey." -- National Geographic Traveller, "Best new food and travel books"
"Lyrical . . . The deft interweaving of personal recollection, reportage, and history makes Cold Kitchen a sinuous and compelling read . . . It is not a lengthy read but it is one of profound poignancy. Readers will turn its final page . . . with the desire to travel, eat, cook-and dream." -- The Moscow Times
"A hugely accomplished work that manages to be wildly enjoyable, often moving and always thoughtful." -- The Spectator
"In Cold Kitchen, Caroline Eden shares my love of travel and food and writes about both so beautifully. I don't know many other writers who have visited Uzbekistan and Georgia, as I have, and I loved returning there again through her writing. Utterly charming!" -- Ann Hood, New York Times bestselling author of FLY GIRL, KITCHEN YARNS, and COMFORT
"Powerfully evocative and beautifully written Cold Kitchen will warm your heart. Curl up with this book and let it gently take you places near and far; you will find a sense of home, the hearthstone of our shared humanity." -- Elif Shafak, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of THE ISLAND OF MISSING TREES and 10 MINUTES 38 SECONDS IN THIS STRANGE WORLD
"One of the most brilliant travel writers of her generation, Caroline Eden is masterful at evoking the flavours and emotions of her encounters while on the road in eastern Europe and Central Asia. In Cold Kitchen, she weaves together the contemporary and the historical, the mundane and the magical, in a heartfelt memoir on the meanings of both distant adventures and the comforts of home." -- Fuchsia Dunlop, author of THE FOOD OF SICHUAN and EVERY GRAIN OF RICE
"A quiet and beautiful book, a unique blend of history, place, love, food and belonging. Eden writes so sincerely and so intimately you miss her as soon as you've read the last page." -- Diana Henry, author of FROM THE OVEN TO THE TABLE and SIMPLE
"A unique memoir to savour by an explorer of our time. Eden's cultural and culinary map takes us into a wonderfully rich world." -- Lyse Doucet, BBC award-winning Chief International Correspondent


Publisher Marketing:
From the author of Red Sands, a New Yorker "Best Cookbook of the Year," a cozy, thoughtful memoir recalling food and travel in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from a basement Edinburgh kitchen, featuring a delicious recipe at the end of each chapter.

"With its union of practicality and magic," Caroline Eden understands a kitchen as a portal, "offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways back into other times, other lives and other territories."
A welcoming refuge with its tempting pantry, shelves of books, and inquisitive dog, Caroline Eden's basement Edinburgh kitchen offers her comfort away from the road. Join her as she cooks recipes from her travels, reflects on past adventures, and contemplates the kitchen's unique ability to tell human stories. This is a hauntingly honest, and at times heartbreaking, memoir with the smell, taste, and preparation of food at its heart.
From late night baking as a route back to Ukraine to capturing the beauty of Uzbek porcelain, and from the troublesome nature of food and art in Poland to the magic of cloudberries, Cold Kitchen celebrates the importance of curiosity and of feeling at home in the world.

 

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