COOKBOOK - Red Sands

Red Sands is Caroline Eden's second title; it follows on from the award-winning and critically acclaimed Black Sea. In her journey through Central Asia, Caroline Eden uses cuisine as a common thread to offer a very personal vision of this little-known region bordered by Iran and Afghanistan, connecting Europe and eastern Asia. , Russia and China. In mosques deep in desert caves, wedding halls overflowing with luxury and noise, in amazing walnut forests, hotels for the heroes of the Soviet space program or tired dining halls of dilapidated sanatoriums, we make the show. knowledge of the fascinating characters in this book. They are cooks and poets, entrepreneurs and historians, gardeners and fishermen from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Humanity and hope - and the importance of a good meal shared along the way: these are the messages that emerge during Caroline Eden's journey, but it is the natural geography of the region that sets her pace. And in the heart of Central Asia, it is an indomitable desert drowned in light that sets the pace, a land of "red sand" known as Kyzylkoum.