Caroline Eden

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Anna Berrill |Melissa Thompson |Caroline Eden |Killian Fox |Kate Guest |Georgina Hayden | +5 more

PeopleParis Rosina and the return of supper clubs“My food is like your grandmother’s, but far sexier,” says chef Paris Rosina, the first part perhaps unsurprising given she grew up watching the likes of Fanny Cradock, Keith Floyd and the Two Fat Ladies.

2 months ago | engelsbergideas.com | Caroline Eden

Under a Metal Sky, Philip Marsden, Granta, £20Man stripping the earth’s natural resources is a story as old as time. In Metamorphoses, Book I, Ovid condemns the work of miners: ‘They dug up riches, those incentives to vice, which the earth had hidden and had removed to the Stygian shades. Then destructive iron came forth, and gold, more destructive than iron; then war came forth.’ Dig into the flesh of the planet and suffer the consequences.

2 months ago | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Caroline Eden

Cold Kitchen is warm with promise. It’s the latest project from Caroline Eden, the award-winning author of a trio of travel-laced cookbooks, including Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland and Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes — Through Darkness and Light. Here, she transposes the equation, interspersing travelogues with recipes.

Jan 17, 2025 | lithub.com | Caroline Eden

Edging the window up an inch (a basement kitchen needs airing), the smell of roasting potatoes wafts in. Nearby, in other Edinburgh kitchens, cooks are preparing for Burns Night suppers.

Jan 7, 2025 | engelsbergideas.com | Caroline Eden

The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World and Can Change You Too, Tim Clare, Canongate, £16.99. Wherever in the world archaeologists dig, they almost always turn up boards and pieces such as counters crafted from stones, seeds or shells, proving that games are rooted in global antiquity. The excavation itself is even game-like, similar to a giant jigsaw puzzle, with teams piecing together fragments and identifying objects to be photographed and logged.