Inside Cold Kitchen: Caroline Eden Reveals the Surprising Secrets Behind a Year of Global Culinary Adventures
Caroline Eden: Over the years my books, including Black Sea and Red Sands, have been set entirely overseas as they are narrative cookbooks, or travelogues with recipes, about the lands between eastern Europe and Central Asia. For this memoir, I wanted to bring the reader into my home, and to Edinburgh where I live. Cold Kitchen has at its heart the idea of feeling at home in the world and looking at how the kitchen can operate as a portal to other times, lives and places. Each chapter moves in and out of my basement kitchen here in Edinburgh as I prepare a dish, for which there is a recipe at the end of each essay. The book opens in Uzbekistan and concludes in Ukraine but it keeps returning home.