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,
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.
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Well researched book with an poor index I received the book yesterday and have been poring through it, The text is well-researched and has a very good bibliography in the back. The photos are great and the recipes are fascinating. Clearly, a lot of work has gone into preparing this book. But why didn’t more work go into preparing the index? If I want to find recipes for soups, there is no entry for “Soup” in the index. Nor is there one for the following, as examples: meat, vegetables, potatoes, chicken, kebab, walnuts, appetizers,…
Caroline Eden’s Black Sea is travel writing to treasure! Caroline Edenâs Black Sea is a spectacular guide to this fascinating region, and you canât help but feel inspired to start planning your own journey there as you savor each page of this gorgeous book. There are recipes here, of course: showcases for ripe vegetables, savory pies, fish and seafood, simple soups and stews, sweets, and more. Great care has gone into adapting dishes the author experienced in her travels so that the reader can simply recreate similar tastes at home without having to…
Enjoyable armchair travel with some surprises. I had only just begun to browse when I came across the four ingredient recipe for rum ice cream that does not use an ice cream machine and references Mark Twain. I made it in five minutes, put it in a Tovolo ice cream container at the back of my freezer and enjoyed it six hours later. So much more to explore in this book. I didn’t buy the book as a cookbook, but I am open to trying more recipes that catch my eye. The history, culture, and photos make for very enjoyable armchair travel to…