"Eden sees the kitchen as the liftoff site for bold voyages of the mind that defy easy categories. She has a born storyteller''s ability to conduct readers along complex historical highways and byways, together with a scholar-detective''s care for getting details right . Her real achievement in Cold Kitchen is to present cooking as not only a pleasurable way to bring an imagined result into being but ultimately a form of thinking." -- The Wall Street Journal "Primarily unfolding in the kitchen of an Edinburgh apartment, this cozy memoir offers rich descriptions of international foods stored in the pantry and cooking on the stove . These domestic scenes spark recollections of visits to Central Asia-Istanbul, Riga, Siberia-and each chapter closes with a recipe for a now familiar dish. In the book''s strongest moments, Eden gestures toward the political significance of her culinary escapades abroad . In so doing, she asserts that food can be as valuable as a place''s ''history, architecture and civic life.''" -- The New Yorker " Cold Kitchen , the year''s first genuinely wonderful book, is full of such moments of subversion, insight, and charm.
" -- Open Letters Review "Structured around a dozen recipes . it''s a memoir, travelogue and cookbook in which those facets add up to a delicious whole." -- The Los Angeles Times "Lyrical descriptions craft vivid still lifes . By following her memoir''s tantalizing recipes-dark beer and rye bread pudding from Latvia, for instance-readers, too, can be transported to perhaps unfamiliar locales." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "Delectable journeys . Eden gently invites readers into those other worlds and, graciously, into the warmth of her fragrant kitchen. A lyrical, captivating memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Eden .
recreates dishes and evocatively recounts the journeys to the Baltics, Central Asia, and the South Caucusus that inspired them . As for her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen itecture and civic life.''" -- The New Yorker " Cold Kitchen , the year''s first genuinely wonderful book, is full of such moments of subversion, insight, and charm." -- Open Letters Review "Structured around a dozen recipes . it''s a memoir, travelogue and cookbook in which those facets add up to a delicious whole." -- The Los Angeles Times "Lyrical descriptions craft vivid still lifes . By following her memoir''s tantalizing recipes-dark beer and rye bread pudding from Latvia, for instance-readers, too, can be transported to perhaps unfamiliar locales.
" -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "Delectable journeys . Eden gently invites readers into those other worlds and, graciously, into the warmth of her fragrant kitchen. A lyrical, captivating memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Eden . recreates dishes and evocatively recounts the journeys to the Baltics, Central Asia, and the South Caucusus that inspired them . As for her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen r her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen itecture and civic life.
''" -- The New Yorker " Cold Kitchen , the year''s first genuinely wonderful book, is full of such moments of subversion, insight, and charm." -- Open Letters Review "Structured around a dozen recipes . it''s a memoir, travelogue and cookbook in which those facets add up to a delicious whole." -- The Los Angeles Times "Lyrical descriptions craft vivid still lifes . By following her memoir''s tantalizing recipes-dark beer and rye bread pudding from Latvia, for instance-readers, too, can be transported to perhaps unfamiliar locales." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "Delectable journeys . Eden gently invites readers into those other worlds and, graciously, into the warmth of her fragrant kitchen. A lyrical, captivating memoir.
" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Eden . recreates dishes and evocatively recounts the journeys to the Baltics, Central Asia, and the South Caucusus that inspired them . As for her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen itecture and civic life.''" -- The New Yorker " Cold Kitchen , the year''s first genuinely wonderful book, is full of such moments of subversion, insight, and charm." -- Open Letters Review "Structured around a dozen recipes . it''s a memoir, travelogue and cookbook in which those facets add up to a delicious whole." -- The Los Angeles Times "Lyrical descriptions craft vivid still lifes .
By following her memoir''s tantalizing recipes-dark beer and rye bread pudding from Latvia, for instance-readers, too, can be transported to perhaps unfamiliar locales." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "Delectable journeys . Eden gently invites readers into those other worlds and, graciously, into the warmth of her fragrant kitchen. A lyrical, captivating memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Eden . recreates dishes and evocatively recounts the journeys to the Baltics, Central Asia, and the South Caucusus that inspired them . As for her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen r her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared.
" -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen r her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen itecture and civic life.''" -- The New Yorker " Cold Kitchen , the year''s first genuinely wonderful book, is full of such moments of subversion, insight, and charm." -- Open Letters Review "Structured around a dozen recipes . it''s a memoir, travelogue and cookbook in which those facets add up to a delicious whole." -- The Los Angeles Times "Lyrical descriptions craft vivid still lifes . By following her memoir''s tantalizing recipes-dark beer and rye bread pudding from Latvia, for instance-readers, too, can be transported to perhaps unfamiliar locales." -- Shelf Awareness, starred review "Delectable journeys .
Eden gently invites readers into those other worlds and, graciously, into the warmth of her fragrant kitchen. A lyrical, captivating memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Eden . recreates dishes and evocatively recounts the journeys to the Baltics, Central Asia, and the South Caucusus that inspired them . As for her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen r her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen moir." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Eden .
recreates dishes and evocatively recounts the journeys to the Baltics, Central Asia, and the South Caucusus that inspired them . As for her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen r her titular kitchen, if it gets chilly due to weather, worry, and a fallen friend, it is ever warmed by Eden''s efforts and memories, so generously shared." -- Booklist "[ Cold Kitchen ] revolves around 12 recipes, each of which are a launching pad for Eden''s mesmerizing considerations about travel and home." -- The Week "In her subterranean kitchen in Edinburgh, Scotland, Eden recreates the flavors of her travels, reconnecting to these far-flung destinations with the comfort of her dog at her side . Cold Kitchen is an invitation to appreciate every morsel of the present moment." -- BookPage "Caroline Eden''s Cold Kitchen thinks about food and appetite and cooking in all the right ways and none of the wrong ones . Like any good book about the domestic arts, Cold Kitchen is a sermon against despair, despite/because of the author''s familiarity with places of war.
" -- The Times Literary Supplement, "Books of the Year" "One of my favourite food writers . wonderfully evocative." -- The Bookseller, "Editor''s Choice" "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." -- National Geograph.