Cold Kitchen

A Year of Culinary Travels

De: Caroline Eden

Narrado por: Caroline Eden

Bloomsbury presents Cold Kitchen written and read by Caroline Eden.

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.

Reseñas de la Crítica

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.

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.

A hugely accomplished work that manages to be wildly enjoyable, often moving and always thoughtful. (Olivia Potts)

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.

A beguiling book overlaid with a tinge of melancholy for a world that is so often in a state of violent upheaval. Anyone who has ever felt the pangs of homesickness will understand how cooking can transport you.

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.

A unique memoir to savour by an explorer of our time. Eden’s cultural and culinary map takes us into a wonderfully rich world.

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.

Travel, history, food and identity – it’s all here in intrepid traveller Caroline’s tenderly written memoir. From her basement kitchen in Edinburgh, she re?ects on past culinary adventures, including plucking cloudberries in the Scottish Highlands and the magic of Riga’s rye bread pudding, sharing memorable recipes along the way.

There are few with Caroline Eden’s ability to convey the particularities of people, place and landscapes through food … This honest, personal food memoir takes the reader from Eden cooking the recipes in her Edinburgh basement kitchen to a Russian railway for pies, Latvian capital Riga for dark beer and rye pudding, and much more besides. A special book to read, cook from and be transported by

A moving reflection on how meaning is accrued through time and memory

PDF?

I love this book—the text, the recipes, the author’s narration—so where’s the pdf for the recipes? Come on!

Loved this!

The narrative and the performance are exceptional. Listening to this made me want to travel to these faraway places just to taste the food she describes.

The history lessons of faraway land

Loved the descriptions of people and places, the descriptions of the feel of places, the interesting foods. Recipes and friends she made along the way. Excellent book

Totally my kind of book - travel and food

I love the book, I love the stories and especially how the history of the countries is juxtaposed with the present day. But I wish there was a PDF so I could easily start on making things such as pasties. The recipes for some really obscure to me, but common to the countries she visits, are clearly delineated in the chapters so it won't be impossible, still...Anyway, I really enjoyed the way Darwin the dog is intermixed into the stories, great name, great dog. The author is very brave to go the places she (and her husband) traveled to, and many times by herself! At my age I have to be an armchair traveler but I can still cook and re-listen as I am cooking as the book conjures up images of the restaurants, museums, cafes, friends, her kitchen, walking trails and cloudberries she experienced.

Worth the Effort

I enjoyed the travel stories mingled with life back home in Edinburgh. A pdf with a map of the places visited and a link to the recipes would enhance comprehension. Between my hearing, the author’s accent and unfamiliar locations I found myself revisiting a number of passages. They were worth revisiting. Given a choice I would recommend the book over the audio version.