Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes

Lushly written and rich with context, this tour of the mountainous landscape east of the Black Sea introduces us to the cooks and cooking of Georgia and Armenia.

Fuchsia Dunlop calls Caroline Eden “one of the most brilliant travel writers of her generation,” and it’s absolutely true. For all the enticing recipes here Eden is also providing us with a powerful sense of place and adventure, wandering with purpose through valleys and towns, visiting markets, meeting home cooks, seeing historic sites. It’s a very different sort of introduction to cuisines.

And the food is remarkably distinctive too:

• Lamb with plums, green beans, and cinnamon

• Citrus and walnut salad

• Scrambled eggs with purslane and paprika

• Potato and cabbage pirozhki with caraway, parsley, and dill

Green Mountains completes a set of three books. The others are Black Sea, which is about the surrounding lands, and Red Sands, which covers Central Asia. A very remarkable trio.

Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.