Cold Kitchen

A Year of Culinary Journeys

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"

'With its union of practicality and magic, a kitchen is a portal offering extended range and providing unlikely paths out of the ordinary. Offering opportunities to cook, imagine and create ways back into other times, other lives and other territories. Central Asia, Turkey, Ukraine, the South Caucasus, Russia, the Baltics and Poland. Places that have eased into my marrow over the years shaping my life, writing and thinking. They are here, these lands I return to, in this kitchen.'

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.

©2024 Caroline Eden (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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

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.

PDF?

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

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.

Horrible narration

I liked the story but couldn’t finish it due to the staccato and completely unnatural narration- it was awful.