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Black Sea :Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light
Black Sea :Dispatches and Recipes – Through Darkness and Light
hardback
Published:
1 November, 2018
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Description
Winner of the Art of Eating Prize 2020
Winner of the Guild of Food Writers' Best Food Book Award 2019
Winner of the Edward Stanford Travel Food and Drink Book Award 2019
Winner of the John Avery Award at the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for 2018
Shortlisted for the James Beard International Cookbook Award
'The next best thing to actually travelling with Caroline Eden – a warm, erudite and greedy guide – is to read her. This is my kind of book.’ – Diana Henry
'A wonderfully inspiring book about a magical part of the world' – Viv Groskop, author of The Anna Karenina Fix
‘Part travelogue, part recipe book, this is a love letter to “the sea that welcomes strangers”, soaked in colour, history, myth and the flavours of many cultures.’ – Nick Hunt author of Where the Wild Winds Are
This is the tale of a journey between three great cities – Odessa, built on a dream by Catherine the Great, through Istanbul, the fulcrum balancing Europe and Asia and on to tough, stoic, lyrical Trabzon.
With a nose for a good recipe and an ear for an extraordinary story, Caroline Eden travels from Odessa to Bessarabia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey’s Black Sea region, exploring interconnecting culinary cultures. From the Jewish table of Odessa, to meeting the last fisherwoman of Bulgaria and charting the legacies of the White Russian émigrés in Istanbul, Caroline gives readers a unique insight into a part of the world that is both shaded by darkness and illuminated by light.
Meticulously researched and documenting unprecedented meetings with remarkable individuals, Black Sea is like no other piece of travel writing. Packed with rich photography and sumptuous food, this biography of a region, its people and its recipes truly breaks new ground.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781787131316 |
| ISBN10 | 1787131319 |
| Number Of Pages | 288 |
| Item Weight | 1036 g |
| Product Dimensions | 176 x 254 x 32 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Quadrille Publishing Ltd |
| Format | hardback |
Media Reviews
A genuinely erudite dive into the cultures that meet at the Black Sea. Beautiful enough for the coffee table but fascinating enough for the nightstand and useful in the kitchen, too. * Tim Hayward, Financial Times *
It’s packed with human stories as well as history, giving the recipes a significance and resonance. * Diana Henry, Sunday Telegraph *
It’s her writing – elegant, fluid and as mesmerising as the Black Sea itself – that captures and holds your attention and imagination throughout this journey. * Julia Platt Leonard, The Independent *
Eden’s blazing talent and unabashedly greedy curiosity will have you strapped in beside her... If Sybille Bedford or Patrick Leigh Fermor had included a few recipes in their accounts of their journeys, you’d know exactly where to shelve this gem. * Christine Muhlke, The New York Times *
The food in Black Sea is wonderful, but it’s Eden’s prose that really elevates this book to the extraordinary. She captures people, history, and the ineffable soul of cities with astonishing, almost novelistic precision — more than once, even in the headnotes, I felt myself getting lost in the world of the story. I can’t remember any cookbook that’s drawn me in quite like this. * Helen Rosner, Art of Eating judge *
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Author's Bio
Caroline Eden is an author, journalist and book critic regularly contributing to The Guardian, Financial Times and The Times Literary Supplement. Her book Black Sea won the Guild of Food Writers Best Food Book Award 2019, the Edward Stanford Travel Food and Drink Book Award 2019, and the Art of Eating Prize 2020, as well as being shortlisted for the James Beard Award International Cookbook Award. Red Sands was winner of the André Simon Food Book Award 2020. Caroline lives in Edinburgh.