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Travel and food writer Caroline Eden talks to Janet Christie about her new book Cold Kitchen
The Scotsman
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24/05/2024
Travel and food writer Caroline Eden talks to Janet Christie about her new book Cold Kitchen
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Okay, this is Janet Christie at The Scotsman. I'm here today with Caroline Eden talking
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about her new book, Cold Kitchen. And first of all, I wondered if you could tell us, Caroline,
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what's in the book?
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So it's a book which looks back at my 20-odd years of travel. And what it does is it takes
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a year of me cooking here in my Edinburgh kitchen. And through each dish that I'm preparing
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over 12 chapters, we then travel out to different lands that are covered within the book.
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And can you tell me your favourite food from all of the places that you've been, and also
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list some of the places, perhaps?
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So the book starts in Uzbekistan and ends in Ukraine. And between those two chapters,
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we travel to places like Poland, to Russia, to the South Caucasus. And I would say out
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of all of the dishes that are in the book, there's just one recipe at the end of each
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chapter. It would have to be plov, which is the Central Asian pilaf-style rice dish. Cooks
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in layers, often with lamb or mutton, sometimes with quail eggs. And it's a really delicious
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dish.
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And is there anything, what role does food play for the traveller, would you say, for
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you and for anybody that's travelling?
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I think it's really important for people when they travel. I think most people enjoy an
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aspect of food and travel, whether it's sitting at a cafe or going to a bistro or eating in
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a train carriage. I think food is really good at evoking memories of a place. And I think
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it's often our first way in to a country when we arrive somewhere, you know, what's
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on the menu, first of all.
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And we spoke about some of the things that you have on the table, which are from your
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travels. Could you describe them to us?
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Yeah, so there's just a small selection here, but this is something I picked up in Georgia,
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in Tbilisi recently. These sort of ceramic mushrooms I picked up in Istanbul. These are
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some chocolates from Ukraine, I was just there in February. And this is a spice mix called
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Svan Salt, which is from the northern part of Georgia.
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And we've got scones from Scotland.
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Yes.
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Made by Caroline herself for us today. Thank you very much.
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You can read all about it anyway in Cool Kitchen and one of Caroline's other books. And you
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can also have a look at her website, carolineeden.com. Look at events for her upcoming events in
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Scotland and elsewhere. And you can read more of my work at scotsman.com. Thank you very
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much.
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