Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Journeys by Caroline Eden

With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen becomes a portal to other times, lives, and distant lands. In "Cold Kitchen", Caroline Eden draws on Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, Russia, the Baltics, and Poland, exploring how cooking, travel, friends, and vivid memory intertwine to shape her life, writing, and imagination.

A welcoming refuge with its tempting pantry, shelves of books and inquisitive dog, Caroline Eden finds comfort away from the road in her basement Edinburgh kitchen. 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.