Red Sands (2020) is more of a travelogue with recipes than a conventional cookbook. This is not meant as a criticism – author Caroline Eden writes beautifully and evocatively – but as a warning to those who dislike “life stories”, or too many words, and want just the recipes. The book is subtitled Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia from Hinterland to Heartland and in it Eden, who has written two other award-winning books – Samarkand (2016) and Black Sea (2018) – takes the reader on a…
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