Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels

Join us at The Harbour Chapel in Dunbar on Monday, 12th May, at 7.30 pm, when we'll be in conversation with author Caroline Eden, discussing her book Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels. 

The event will include a Q&A with Caroline Eden, followed by a book signing.

Order a copy of either Cold Kitchen or Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes via this page for free entrance to the event. 

Alternatively, please select an audiobook ticket option (admits one) and we'll email you a voucher to download the audiobook of Cold Kitchen via xixxag.

About Caroline Eden:

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.

Author photograph copyright Effie Ioannou.

About Cold Kitchen:

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.

Paperback,  256 pages, published 8th May 2025.

About Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes:

Green Mountains is the final instalment of Caroline Eden’s ‘colour trilogy’, following on from her multi-award winning books, Black Sea and Red Sands.

In a series of invigorating walks, from the stormy sunbaked valleys of southern Armenia to the jagged peaks of northern Georgia, epic landscapes and fascinating cities come alive via encounters with priests, fruit pickers, tea harvesters, legendary singers, chess masters and heroic alpinists.

The journeying finally ends where this trio of books began, on the Black Sea, and with two conclusions: that no feast can beat a post-walk meal and that the green mountains of the Caucasus are capable of transforming just about anyone into a pilgrim.

EVENT DETAILS:

Please note, copies of the books will be available for collection/delivery from around publication day: 8th May (Cold Kitchen), or 3rd April (Green Mountains).

Please select 'local pick up' at the checkout if you would like to collect your copy/copies from Night Owl Books, or at the event. Alternatively, please select a Royal Mail option and we'll post your book(s) to you.

FAQs

- Will I be sent an e-ticket before the event?

Please note that we will have a guest list on the door on the night of the event, and you will not be sent an e-ticket for it - simply let us know your name/the name of the person who booked your ticket when you arrive, and we'll check you in! 

- Can I collect my book at the event?

Copies can be collected on the night at the event, or alternatively if you would like to read the book before attending copies can be collected or posted to you in advance.

A note on Covid precautions: if you feel unwell on the day, please err on the side of caution, and please take a lateral flow test before attending, if you can.