Following the success of her first book, Samarkand, Caroline Eden returns to Stanfords, this time with a tale of a journey between three great cities – Odessa in Ukraine, built on a dream by Catherine the Great, through Istanbul, the fulcrum balancing Europe and Asia, and on to tough, stoic, lyrical Trabzon in north-eastern Turkey.
With a nose for a good recipe and an ear for an extraordinary story, Caroline Eden takes us from Odessa to Bessarabia and on to Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey’s Black Sea region, exploring its interconnecting culinary cultures.
From meeting the last fisherwoman of Bulgaria, to tracing the legacies of the White Russian émigrés in Istanbul, Caroline charts a totally fresh course while giving a unique insight into a part of the world that is both shaded by darkness and illuminated by light.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
