Caroline Eden is a writer and literary critic. She's the author of several books, including
Samarkand (2016),
Black Sea (2018) and
Red Sands (2020). She has been awarded both the
Art of Eating Prize and the
André Simon Award and
Red Sands was a 'book of the year' for the FT, Sunday Times and
The New Yorker.
Eden writes on books, food, travel and culture for the
Guardian,
Times Literary Supplement and
Financial Times, among many other publications. She has a weekly newsletter called
Journeys Beyond Borders which goes out every Wednesday, with extra dispatches for paid subscribers. You can join
here.
Her new book, celebrating the importance of curiosity and of feeling at home in the world, is an 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 will be published by Bloomsbury on 9 May 2024. You can pre-order it
here. The US release date is January 2025 and pre-orders will open for that territory soon.
Early praise for Cold Kitchen:
"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
"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
"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
"Into her Edinburgh kitchen, Caroline Eden tenderly gathers the ingredients and memories from a hundred journeys in Turkey, the Baltics, the Caucasus and Central Asia. A wonderful feast of a book by a multi-talented author" ― Philip Marsden
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