Cold Kitchen
by Caroline Eden
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Pub Date 8 May 2025 | Archive Date 8 May 2025
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ) | Bloomsbury Publishing
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Description
A Financial Times and Observer "best summer read"
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
‘With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal, offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary … longed-for places are suddenly not so far away. Not unreachable, but present. Held again in the hand and heart.’
In her Edinburgh basement kitchen, Caroline Eden recounts travels across Central Asia, Turkey, the Baltics and beyond using recipes, souvenirs, ingredients and imagination to provide routes back to distant lands and past adventures.
From late-night baking as a way to Ukraine, to the magic of Uzbekistan’s wintertime melons, once gifts fit for emperors and tsars, this is a hauntingly honest memoir with the smell, taste and preparation of food at its heart. Cold Kitchen is an ode to the kitchen’s extraordinary ability to tell human stories and transport us to faraway places and different times.
Advance Praise
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
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
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
A hugely accomplished work that manages to be wildly enjoyable, often moving and always thoughtful. - Olivia Potts, The Spectator
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781526658999 |
| PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 256 |
